. . "The Arid Diagonal (Spanish: diagonal \u00E1rida/arreica) is a contiguous zone of arid and semi-arid climate that traverses South America from Coastal Peru in the Northwest to Argentine Patagonia in Southeast including large swathes of Bolivia and Chile. The Arid Diagonal encompasses a number of deserts for example: Sechura, Atacama, Monte and the Patagonian Desert."@en .