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A young shepherd holds a lamb in front of his rural home in the desert. He lives with his family in a wet, foggy stretch of northern Chile that surrounds the cloud forests of Fray Jorge National Park. Despite the dampness, cactus thrive there and inventive villagers plant them in rows to form livestock pens.
Small cacti of Quisco Cacto or Echinapsis chilensisof species, are planted in a row and grow together making an effective and inexpensive fence.
Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, a strange landscape of cactus and yet, it is wet and foggy. It is described as an ecological island.
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- Melissa Farlow
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Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, Chilean people, border, Chile, culture, customs, harbor, Latin America, Latino, Pan American highway, Panamericana, Peru, road, seaport, South, America, Spanish speaking, touring, tourist, travel, shepherd, farms and farming, boy, child, lamb, sheep, animal, farm animals, cactus, fence
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- Long Road South BOOK_National Geographic 1/1999
