The Tabernas Desert (in Spanish: Desierto de Tabernas) is a desert in Spain, and one of the only true deserts in Europe, the others being also located within Spain´s southeastern province of Almería, where annual rainfall is, in many parts well below 200 mm a year. It is located about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the provincial capital, Almería, in the Tabernas municipality. It is protected as a wilderness area (paraje natural) spanning 280 square kilometres (110 square miles).
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“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)