[1] 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.
[citation needed] Little water is present in the desert surface.
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