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The Humboldt Current
The Humboldt Current

The Humboldt Current

—The Humboldt Current is part of a much larger system, the South Pacific Gyre, with the equator as its uppermost limit.
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  • As we follow our female blue whale north, we arrive in central Chile; the influence of the Humboldt current shapes life even in one of the driest ecosystems on earth.
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    In Chile's Torres del Paine, melt from snow-covered mountains feeds finger-like fjords as they reach out to the sea to join the current, lowering its salinity and becoming home to wading birds, rare dolphins and orcas.
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