ABOVE: Thanks to heavy flooding, a field of flowers now exists in what was once a barren part of Chile.
Recent floods that caused devastation in northern Chile have had another, more positive, effect on the region: encouraging an abundance of flowers to bloom and plants to grow across what is normally a bare and arid landscape.
Local residents of Copiapo, located within Chile’s Atacama desert, stopped to take photos as a keepsake of the phenomenon on Tuesday.
The natural flowering in the desert, one of the driest in the world, usually occurs every four to five years in spring after a period of heavy rains.
However this year, torrential rains which battered the region in March led to the unseasonal bloom, according to head of the Flowering Desert Organisation, Raul Cespedes.
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