Intlango yingingqi ehlala izilwanyana nekumila kuyo izityalo kodwa umhlaba wayo ube yinkqantosi ngokoma. Ifumana imvula engaphantsi kwama25 ee-cm (malunga neeintshi ezili-9.8) zemvula ngonyaka. Omnye umphandi uyichaza intlango njengayo nayiphi na ingingqi esenokunqatyelwa ngamanzi kwisithuba esithile sonyaka. Ngamanye amazwi, zinganemvula okanye amanzi amancinane kakhulu ngonyaka kunalawo ziwakhupha emhlabeni ngeevaporation".[1]

Intlango yeAtacama, eChile
Intlango yaseSahara

Iindawo ezinje ngezi zithatha umhlaba ongangama-33% apha emhlabeni. [2] Oko kuquka umhlaba omninzi waseAntarctica, apho umhlaba omninzi ungafumani liqhwa kwaphela. Eyona ntlango inkulu nenobushushu obuphakamileyo yintlango yaseSahara, emantla eAfrica, ithatha umhlaba ozii square kilomitha ezizizigidi ezilu-9.

Inyaniso eyenza umdla

tshintsha

Kwiintlango ezitshisayo ungabona imirage okanye ifata morgana. Imirage ke kukukhanya okuqhathayo. Kungakwenza ucinge okokuba kukho ipuli yamanzi entlango, kube kungekho kwamanzi apho.

  1. Universe Today. what-percentage-of-the-earths-land-surface-is-desert/
  2. "What Is a Desert?" pubs.usgs.gov December 18, 2001 retrieved April 9, 2011