The Patagonian Steppe, also called the Patagonian Desert, is a large cold winter desert and grassland covering roughly 673,000 square kilometers of Argentina, the largest desert in the country and the eighth largest in the world by area. Its dry, wind-scoured plains straddle two classifications, appearing in surveys both as desert and xeric shrubland and as temperate grassland. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Biogeographic Realm Protected StatusLarge-scale biome/ecoregion spanning many jurisdictions: it contains formally protected reserves and parks alongside unprotected land, so no single stronger category applies to the region as a whole. Area (sq km) Connections
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The Patagonian Desert, also known as the Patagonian Steppe, is the largest desert in Argentina and is the eighth-largest desert in the world by area, occupying approx. 673,000 square kilometres (260,000 mi2).
- Biogeographic realm: neotropic (derived from location stated in entity description)
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is the largest desert in Argentina
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Guanaco (Wikipedia)
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Guanacos inhabit the steppes, scrublands and mountainous regions of South America. They are found in the altiplano of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and in Patagonia
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The South American gray fox occurs in a variety of habitats, from the warm, arid scrublands of the Argentine uplands and the cold, arid Patagonian steppe to the forests of southernmost Chile.
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Open Question: Patagonian Steppe
A cited further-reading source on the Patagonian Desert Wikipedia article poses whether dust raised from the Patagonian Steppe reaches the sub-Antarctic Atlantic Ocean as an open research question.
What would resolve this Atmospheric dust-transport modeling or sediment-core sampling in the sub-Antarctic Atlantic tracing mineral signatures back to Patagonian sources.
Atmospheric sciencePatagonian Desert (Wikipedia)
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