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| Salar De Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia. Cool Natural Effects, Picture included. |
Salar De Uyuni (or Salar De Tunupa) is the worlds biggest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is established in the Potosà and Oruro agencies in southwest Bolivia, beside the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) overhead mean ocean level. The Salar was formed as a outcome of transformations between some prehistoric lagoons. It is enclosed by a couple of meters of salt crust, which has an exceptional flatness with the mean altitude variations inside one meter over the entire locality of the Salar. The crust serves as a source of saline and wrappings a pool of brine, which is exceptionally rich in lithium. It comprises 50 to 70% of the world's lithium reserves, which is in the process of being extracted. The large locality, clear atmosphere, and the outstanding flatness of the exterior make the Salar an ideal object for calibrating the altimeters of soil observation satellites.
The Salar serves as the foremost transport path across the Bolivian Altiplano and is a foremost breeding ground for some species of pink flamingos. Salar de Uyuni is furthermore a climatological transitional zone since the towering tropical cumulus congestus and cumulus incus clouds that pattern in the to the east part of the saline flat throughout the summer will not permeate after its drier western perimeters, near the Chilean boundary and the Atacama Desert.
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