Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia

Salar De Uyuni very nice and one of the world's most stunning scenery in the salt, is a pile - some 4,633 square miles of salt. Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia at an altitude of 3,650 m, near the top of the Andes region of south-west where Oruno and Potosi. more than 40,000 years ago, the area of ​​the two giant prehistoric Lake Michin Poopo and Uru Lake, and two salt deserts,Salar de Coipasa and the Salar de Uyuni has dried up and left. Utah's Bonneville salt flats in the second 25 times, and 10,582 square km is about the size of two. Chilean Flamingo, James and Andes: a year later, in November, Salar De Uyuni ruins of livestock has three types of flamingos in South America. Mineral deposits in shallow lakes such as the potassium salt crust of snow and rings that microbes feast on the Flamingo.

Salar de Uyuni, the half of the world's reserves of lithium and are used to create high-energy density lithium batteries, the resources has been exploited so far. We can only hope that after the mining plants are built not bother too many wonders of Uyuni. Given the distance of Salar de Uyuni, it's a very popular place, and not just with tourists. Miners working in the Salar produce a whopping 25,000 tons of salt per year and it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the total reserves of 10 billion tons of salt offered Uyuni. As she is not hard to imagine, Uyuni area provide excellent targets for testing and calibration of satellite, or more specifically their remote sensing data tools. Clear skies, dry air, minimal elevation deviation, a large, smooth surface and high surface reflectivity during the rainy season the Uyuni five times better geared for satellite calibration of the surface of the sea. Visitors can the size of the place and the high altitude and for a special treat during the winter season. It turns out the entire desert in a shallow pond with a smooth surface.