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Lima, living desert

Lima is one of the largest cities in the world built on a desert. It almost never rains, the sky stays grey for months, and the hills around it are made of sand and stone.


Millions of people have made a home here anyway: houses climbing dry hills, markets, cemeteries and neighbourhoods that keep spreading toward the dunes.


Lima, living desert documents the capital of Peru as it is: a city that shouldn't exist where it does, and the people who make it alive every day.

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