Known as the ‘Heaven on Earth’, Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia is one such salt desert that can make you believe, you are standing on a natural mirror!
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#Salar_de_Uyuni in #Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes Potosí the #Salar is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar.
Its flat enough to have a uniform water of about 1 ft to a meter throughout when it rains and before the water soaks it turns the entire salt flat into a #natural mirror. The wet season turns it into a perfectly reflective #lake.
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The large area of Salar its clear skies, and the exceptional flatness of its surface make the Salar an ideal object for calibrating the altimeters of #Earth observation #satellites.
Besides, being the world’s largest salt flat at 10,582 km² it is also home of half the planet’s lithium, a key component in most electronics’ batteries.
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The Salar also known for its #silver_deposits has a crust that serves as a source of salt and covers a pool of brine, which is exceptionally rich in #lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world’s lithium reserves, which is in the process of being extracted. The Salar serves as the major transport route across the Bolivian #Altiplano and is a is also a #climatological transitional zone, between the Andes and the plateau.
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