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Question
Give a reason for the following:
Patagonia is a desert in the rain shadow of the Andes.
Solution
Patagonia is a cold desert in South America due to being in the rain shadow area of the Andes and does not get rainfall and is a cold and dry desert with its major part in Argentina.
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