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Northern area of the Namib desert
The
Mocamedes Desert
is a
desert
located in the deep southwest of
Angola
, near the border with
Namibia
. The desert forms the northern tip of the
Namib Desert
.
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From the
Atlantic Ocean
in the west, the desert gradually rises to a semiarid plain where African ironwood trees grow. Few people live in the desert; communities are found mainly in small fishing towns on the coast. The unique
tumboa
(Welwitschia mirabilis), a desert plant with a short, wide trunk and two gigantic leaves that can survive for a century, is endemic to the desert.
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citation needed
]
Little water is present in the desert surface.
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