Uyuni solonchak: 12 wonderful photos of a real miracle of nature

In South America, among the desert Bolivian plains lies one of the most amazing wonders of the world - the Uyuni Solonchak. Here, lithium is mined, experiments are conducted on various orbital vehicles, flamingos arrive here to nest, and here is one of the most fantastic panoramas on Earth. So it is not surprising that the salt flats were loved by travelers, because where else can you feel like on another planet.

Uyuni is a legacy of an ancient reservoir that existed here about 40,000 years ago

It dried up, leaving behind a salted crust, salt marshes and two small lakes

So Uyuni is not the only "descendant" of an ancient reservoir, there is another salt marsh - Koipas, but it is four times less

Uyuni is the largest salt marsh on the planet; its size exceeds ten thousand square kilometers

It contains approximately 10 billion tons of salt

But in the bowels of Uyuni there are other valuable substances: for example, lithium, which is about 70% of the world's reserves

Uyuni and Koipas are located at an altitude of 3,600 meters above sea level

If in the absence of precipitation Uyuni becomes like hard salt ice, then in the rainy season it blooms, being covered with a thin layer of water

Thanks to this, Uyuni magically transforms, turning into a mirror of incredible size, in which the clear sky and everything around are reflected

This is where testing equipment designed for the remote study of space satellites

Every November, Uyuni becomes a home for flamingos: magnificent birds fly to these lands to acquire offspring and feed their chicks.

And there is also an open-air museum where there are abandoned trains that worked from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War II

Watch the video: Salar de Uyuni Bolivia (April 2024).