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OCR: The high altitude deserts of South America stretch nearly the whole ength of the continent, from Colombia in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south. These deserts are among the coldest and least hospitable of all the world's deserts, owing their existence to cold ocean currents from Antarctica and the rain shadow effect of the towering Andes