Camanchaca
Camanchaca
Marine stratocumulus cloud banks that form in Chile
Camanchacas are marine stratocumulus cloud banks that form on the Chilean coast, by the Earth's driest desert, the Atacama Desert, and move inland. In Peru, a similar fog is called garúa, and in Angola cacimbo. On the side of the mountains where these cloud banks form, the camanchaca is a dense fog that does not produce rain.[1] The moisture that makes up the cloud measure between 1 and 40 microns across, too fine to form rain droplets.[2]