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Hotel name-Bolivian rooms & suites
Price per night- 44$
Stars-4.5
Rating-(excellent)
What is notable about this hotel- its near Valle de luna, muela del diablo, the witches market in La Paz.
Amenities-Complimentary breakfast, laundry service, restarant, good for kids.

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Valle de la luna
price of entry 3000 pesos.
Duration of time spent-6 hours max.
Food-N/A its a park national reserve
what will you see- moon like landscape of dunes
What will you do- look around take pictures,hike.
Why should you go, bubbling geysers, mountain lagoons. varied landscape to come across.

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Bolivia has a part of there economy made of salt, and the massive amounts of salt being extracted. The main consumers of salt product is Human consumption, while the rest is for livestock. Bolivia is taking steps to utilize the salt flats it has. “The estimated annual out put of Colchani operation is nearly 20,000 tons 18,000 tons of slat, which is for human consumptions while the rest is for livestock., Bolivia is usingsalt to make money not just lithium. Not all focused on lithium.

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In 2006 Bolivia elects a president that is taking steps into a brighter future, his name being Morales. President Morales is taking steps int a better future, Bolivia might enter a knew era, the era of lithium. “The country opened a 19-million-dollar lithium production plant in 2013, and Morales has told reporters that at least 60 percent of profits of lithium mining must be stay in the country”. President Morales is seizing the opportunities at hand to make money for a poor Latin America Country. This leads to the process of how to actually extract lithium from mining efferently, also how to convince people to take the long journey to get to the lithium production plant.

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Half the world’s lithium reserves are located in a south American country, and they’re not utilizing it to the best opportunities. “Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia is the worlds largest salt flat at 10,582 [km.sup.2], and home to half the worlds lithium resgood economy”. Even with Salar De Uyuni having opportunities to have a successful economy, its GDP per capita is still at an all-time low. This meaning Salar De uyuni is a treacherous place to venture to. Also meaning that Bolivia’s government does not care as much about how the economy is doing, as it shows they have not improvised a plan to create a better infrastructure to travel to the lithium mines and back.  Salar De Uyuni offers many great untapped potential for making money, but Bolivia is still one of the worse economy’s in South America. What makes Salar De Uyuni such a treacherous path to travel along is because it contains a bus commute that can last days on a bumpy dirt road, this being a path not many are willing to take.

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Why Bolivia is a poor South America country

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Why Bolivia is a poor South America country

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Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Poverty, which restricts the exercise of human rights, affects population groups in different ways, according to gender and ethnic origin. Poverty and inequity also give citizenship a limited and precarious status.

Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Poverty affects the quality of life of the majority of the population, and restricts the right to enjoy and exercise the human rights of those affected.

All human beings have the right to aspire to satisfy their basic requirements. To be poor not only signifies incapacity to cover basic necessities, but also exclusion from the opportunity of developing one's capacities to fulfill a productive and creative role in society, as well as having limited possibilities to make one's own claims heard.

Numbers speak out

According to the 2002 Poverty Map with information from the Census of 2001, 59 per cent of the population of over 8,274,325 inhabitants live in conditions of poverty and 24,4 per cent live in conditions of extreme poverty. However, many specialists maintain that these figures should be much higher as income and work are not considered when making this calculation.

On the other hand, according to the latest Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme (PNUD 2002), Bolivia ranks as the 104th of a total of 174 countries in human development. The country has a fifth position amongst the lowest ranking countries in the region. The Human Development Index is composed of three variables: life expectancy at birth, educational achivement and the real Gross National Product per capita (expressed in Parity of Acquisitive Capacity).

Short term perspectives are not very favourable. From 1998 to 2002 the per capita GNP fell from USD 1,071 to USD 883 (INE, 2002). With almost no productive investment, diminishing internal demand, lack of confidence, uncertainty, increasing lack of prestige of the political parties and lack of credibility of the political system, conditions do not exist for economic reactivation in the short term.

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UNICEF Bolivia - Resources - Situation of poverty in the country

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Gaps also exist between the different regions of the country and between urban and rural areas. The departments with the highest poverty rate are Potosi, Chuquisaca and Pando, while Santa Cruz and Tarija present the lowest rates.

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Salar de Uyuni is now a center of salt extraction and processing, particularly around the settlement of Colchani. The estimated annual output of the Colchani operation is nearly 20,000 tons, 18,000 tons of which is for human consumption while the rest is for livestock. And beneath the surface, massive lithium deposits should fuel Bolivia’s economy for the next 100 years.

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An evocative and eerie sight, the world’s largest salt flat measures 12,106 sq km and sits at 3653m (11,984ft). When the surface is dry, the salar is a pure white expanse of the greatest nothing imaginable – just blue sky, white ground and you. When there’s a little water, the surface perfectly reflects the clouds and the blue altiplano sky, and the horizon disappears. If you’re driving across the surface at such times, the effect is surreal; it’s hard to believe that you’re not flying through the clouds.

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One of the most beautiful places on earth

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One of the most beautiful places on earth

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At 4,086 square miles, Salar de Uyuni in southwest Bolivia holds the record for the largest salt flats in the world. In fact, so flat are the flats that the U.S. Geological Survey found that elevation variations across the entire area were less than one meter. It is the flattest place on the planet, and it is so stunningly featureless that you can see the curvature of the Earth there. Needless to say, this provides an opportunity to create what might be considered the planet's largest mirror, a place for the sky and earth to collide in dizzying illusions. (We wonder if the moon catches glimpses of her own reflection there.)

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At 4,086 square miles, Salar de Uyuni in southwest Bolivia holds the record for the largest salt flats in the world. In fact, so flat are the flats that the U.S. Geological Survey found that elevation variations across the entire area were less than one meter. It is the flattest place on the planet, and it is so stunningly featureless that you can see the curvature of the Earth there. Needless to say, this provides an opportunity to create what might be considered the planet's largest mirror, a place for the sky and earth to collide in dizzying illusions. (We wonder if the moon catches glimpses of her own reflection there.)

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30 of the most beautiful places in the world

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At 4,086 square miles, Salar de Uyuni in southwest Bolivia holds the record for the largest salt flats in the world. In fact, so flat are the flats that the U.S. Geological Survey found that elevation variations across the entire area were less than one meter.

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Dangers of exploiting  Lithium reserves.

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Dangers of exploiting  Lithium reserves.

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Exploiting Salar de Uyuni’s lithium could come at a cost. One concern is wildlife: the region is a breeding ground for rare flamingos. Another is the health of local people. A study by Karin Broberg of Lund University, Sweden, in four mountain villages in the Argentinian Andes has found that women there ingest so much lithium from groundwater that they suffer similar symptoms to those seen with hypothyroidism: weight gain, fatigue, depression and memory loss. The condition may also be experienced by people being treated with lithium for bipolar disorder. “Now we really would like to study the problem of lithium exposure in drinking water in Bolivia,” Broberg says.

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THE Salar de Uyuni salt flats of Bolivia, covering more than 10,000 square kilometres, are the most extensive in the world, and so level that the surface is used to calibrate the altimeters on board satellites. On a still day, the thin layer of water covering the salt forms a great mirror reflecting the sky.

Piled up in pyramids is the salt from which the people of the village of Colchani eke out a living. Yet beneath the shiny expanse is a brine rich in lithium salts that have huge commercial potential. According to the latest report by the US Geological Survey, Salar de Uyuni contains 9 million tonnes of lithium, more than a quarter of the world's known resources. This could rise to about 50 per cent if the lithium in more than 30 other salars and lagoons in south-western Bolivia is included.

Lithium is increasingly required for the batteries that power phones, laptops, cordless tools and a range of hybrid and electric vehicles - so much so that there are fears that demand will soon outstrip supply. Talk that impoverished Bolivia could become " the Saudi Arabia of lithium " has encouraged its socialist president, Evo Morales, to keep this valuable resource under tight state control. The country has spent three years and more than &dollar;10 million on a pilot plant to extract the lithium. But according to Juan Carlos Zuleta, a lithium economics analyst based in the capital, La Paz, this has so far produced "only meagre results".

Exploiting Salar de Uyuni's lithium could come at a cost. One concern is wildlife&colon; the region is a breeding ground for rare flamingos. Another is the health of local people. A study by Karin Broberg of Lund University, Sweden, in four mountain villages in the Argentinian Andes has found that women there ingest so much lithium from groundwater that they suffer similar symptoms to those seen with hypothyroidism&colon; weight gain, fatigue, depression and memory loss. The condition may also be experienced by people being treated with lithium for bipolar disorder. "Now we really would like to study the problem of lithium exposure in drinking water in Bolivia," Broberg says.

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See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science THE Salar de Uyuni salt flats of Bolivia, covering more than 10,000 square kilometres, are the most extensive in the world, and so level that the surface is used to calibrate the altimeters on board satellites.

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1. Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, located in Bolivia.

2. It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.

3. Salar de Uyuni spreads over 10,582 square kilometers (4,085 square miles), which is roughly 100 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States.

4. Salar De Uyuni, turns into a mirror during the rainy season.

5. The geological history of the Salar is associated with a sequential transformation between several vast lakes. Some 30,000 to 42,000 years ago, the area was part of a giant prehistoric lake, Lake Minchin. When the lake dried up, it left a couple of seasonal puddles and several salt pans, including Salar de Uyuni.

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Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, located in Bolivia.

It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.

Salar de Uyuni spreads over 10,582 square kilometers (4,085 square miles), which is roughly 100 times the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States.

There are a few small 'islands' such as Isla Incahuasi, which only accentuates the Salar's surreal beauty.

The geological history of the Salar is associated with a sequential transformation between several vast lakes. Some 30,000 to 42,000 years ago, the area was part of a giant prehistoric lake, Lake Minchin. When the lake dried up, it left a couple of seasonal puddles and several salt pans, including Salar de Uyuni.

The area has a relatively stable average temperature with a peak at 21 °C in November to January and a low of 13 °C in June.

The rainfall is also low at 1 to 3 mm (0.04 to 0.12 in) per month between April and November, but it may increase up to 80 mm (3.15 in) in January.

Salar De Uyuni, turns into a mirror during the rainy season.

Salar is salt flat in Spanish. Uyuni originates from the Aymara language and means a pen (enclosure); Uyuni is a surname and the name of a town that serves as a gateway for tourists visiting the Salar. Thus Salar de Uyuni can be loosely translated as a salt flat with enclosures, the latter possibly referring to the "islands" of the Salar; or as "salt-flat at Uyuni (the town named 'pen for animals')".

Salar de Uyuni attracts tourists from around the world. As it is far from the cities, a number of hotels have been built in the area.

Palacio de Sal (Spanish for "Palace of salt") is a hotel built of salt blocks. It is located at the edge of Salar de Uyuni. Constructed in 2007, it was built with one million 35 centimeters (14-inch) blocks of salt which are used for the floor, walls, ceiling and furniture including beds, tables, chairs and sculptures.

One major tourist attraction is an antique train cemetery. It is 3 km (almost 2 miles) outside Uyuni and is connected to it by the old train tracks.

As an extremely broad and flat terrestrial surface, the salar de Uyuni is an ideal reference target for Earth-orbiting altimeters.

Every November, Salar de Uyuni is the breeding grounds for three species of pink South American flamingo: the Chilean, Andean, and rare James's flamingos. About 80 other bird species are present, including the horned coot, Andean goose, and Andean hillstar.

It is covered by a few meters (several feet) of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average elevation variations within one meter (3.3 ft) over the entire area of the Salar.

Salar de Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt of which less than 25,000 tons is extracted annually.

Vast reserves of untapped lithium lie beneath the salt flat, and in the early 21st century the Bolivian government discussed options and feasibility for its extraction and production. It contains 50% to 70% of the world's known lithium reserves.

With the use of modern GPS technology, it can now be proven that the Salar de Uyuni is not perfectly flat. New measurements revealed previously missed features resembling ridges, hills, and valleys only millimeters in height.

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Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, located in Bolivia. It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.

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Engineering firms in Germany and Switzerland placed bids to build lithium plants near the Salar de Uyuni after the Bolivian government announced it would accept engineering plans for the exploitation of its lithium fields. The mining process involves pumping brine to the surface, allowing the water to dry in evaporation pools, then harvesting the minerals that remain—mainly salt and lithium. For years the indigenous Aymara people have harvested common table salt from the Uyuni, wearing wooden masks or sheets to protect their eyes from the gleaming sun. Lithium mining on a large scale, however, could destroy the Salar’s ecosystem.

The ensuing dilemma is one that’s haunted resource-rich countries for decades. Reap the rewards of mineral wealth and use these monetary gains to better the lives of impoverished people, but potentially destroy the natural ecosystem in the process. It’s the quandary faced by Ecuador, who asked the world to pay them to leave oil in the ground since drilling would destroy one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. And like Ecuador, Bolivia seems to feel that the harder-to-quantify environmental value of the salt flats is worth less than the enormous monetary wealth mining will bring.

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Stretching out toward a seemingly infinite horizon, its flat surface making a mirror of the sky during the rainy season, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat. The salar (Spanish for "salt lake") belongs to the Altiplano of the high Andes, the world's second-largest plateau. With an average elevation of 3,700 meters (12,139 feet) and a surface area of approximately 10,000 square kilometers (3,861 square miles), the Salar de Uyuni is a unique and important ecosystem. It's also a popular tourist destination and the location of an enormous lithium reserve, making Uyuni a source of national pride, contention, and incredible untapped wealth.

The Salar de Uyuni as it appears today is the result of cyclical changes in the regional climate. According to one study, the Altiplano was covered by large paleolakes during the last glacial stage. These lakes waxed and waned throughout that time, with colder climates engendering greater precipitation and larger lakes. The paleolakes dried up during the Holocene (the geological epoch that began 11,700 years ago and continues to the present), creating the salar: a dried salt crust that is sporadically covered in a thin layer of water. It's an inhospitable environment, one in which a limited number of specialized plant and animal species can survive, including three species of flamingo that congregate on the flats every November to breed. But inventive humans have discovered innumerable ways to put the salt flat to use, from shooting seductive photographs to measuring the terrain to improve satellites that orbit the Earth.

A group of scientists conducted a survey of the Salar de Uyuni. Driving a group of SUVS with GPS antennas mounted to the roof, the researchers crisscrossed a 45-by-54-km patch of the salar. They were surprised to discover that the salt flat didn't live up to its name- it wasn't entirely flat. A broad ridge runs from the southwest to the northeast. The high and low points are spread so far apart (50 km) and have such a slight difference in elevation (77 cm) that less precise survey equipment had never picked up on the ridge before. It's all but invisible to the naked eye. The team theorized that the peaks and troughs correspond to the local gravity field. When rain floods the Uyuni every year it dissolves the surface layer of salt and follows the local gravity field. If not for the curvature in the Earth and these minute variations in gravity, the Uyuni would be completely flat. But its lack of perfection was a boon to the scientists who discovered it: their research helped to calibrate the altitude-measuring instruments of an Earth-orbiting satellite tasked with monitoring ice sheets. The minor variation in the surface of the Salar de Uyuni cut the uncertainty of the satellite's altitude data in half.

But the Uyuni's most valuable property isn't its topography, its ecological rarity, or the tourism revenue it generates. It's the precious metal that lies just below the surface, a blue-green brine filled with lithium that was deposited by ancient volcanic activity. Lithium is the world's lightest metal, used in batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric cars, and the Salar de Uyuni holds around 5.4 million tons of the world's total 11 million.

When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office, he promised to nationalize some of the country's natural resources and use them to invigorate the local economy. The country opened a $19 million lithium-production plant in 2013, and Morales has told reporters that at least 60 percent of profits from lithium mining must stay in the country. But the high cost of mining and the lack of infrastructure forced Morales to court foreign investors.

Engineering firms in Germany and Switzerland placed bids to build lithium plants near the Salar de Uyuni after the Bolivian government announced it would accept engineering plans for the exploitation of its lithium fields. The mining process involves pumping brine to the surface, allowing the water to dry in evaporation pools, then harvesting the minerals that remain-mainly salt and lithium. For years the indigenous Aymara people have harvested common table salt from the Uyuni, wearing wooden masks or sheets to protect their eyes from the gleaming sun. Lithium mining on a large scale, however, could destroy the Salar's ecosystem.

The ensuing dilemma is one that's haunted resource-rich countries for decades. Reap the rewards of mineral wealth and use these monetary gains to better the lives of impoverished people, but potentially destroy the natural ecosystem in the process. It's the quandary faced by Ecuador, who asked the world to pay them to leave oil in the ground since drilling would destroy one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. And like Ecuador, Bolivia seems to feel that the harder-to-quantify environmental value of the salt flats is worth less than the enormous monetary wealth mining will bring.

Perhaps someday the lithium buried beneath the Salar de Uyuni will power electric cars around the world, helping to reduce carbon emissions, improving the lives of millions. But for now it remains a uniquely haunting landscape, its past recorded in geologic history, its future uncertain.

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Stretching out toward a seemingly infinite horizon, its flat surface making a mirror of the sky during the rainy season, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat. The salar (Spanish for "salt lake") belongs to the Altiplano of the high Andes, the world's second-largest plateau.

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But the Uyuni’s most valuable property isn’t its topography, its ecological rarity, or the tourism revenue it generates. It’s the precious metal that lies just below the surface, a blue-green brine filled with lithium that was deposited by ancient volcanic activity. Lithium is the world’s lightest metal, used in batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric cars, and the Salar de Uyuni holds around 5.4 million tons of the world’s total 11 million.

When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office, he promised to nationalize some of the country’s natural resources and use them to invigorate the local economy. The country opened a $19 million lithium-production plant in 2013, and Morales has told reporters that at least 60 percent of profits from lithium mining must stay in the country. But the high cost of mining and the lack of infrastructure  forced Morales to court foreign investors.

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Stretching out toward a seemingly infinite horizon, its flat surface making a mirror of the sky during the rainy season, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat. The salar (Spanish for "salt lake") belongs to the Altiplano of the high Andes, the world's second-largest plateau. With an average elevation of 3,700 meters (12,139 feet) and a surface area of approximately 10,000 square kilometers (3,861 square miles), the Salar de Uyuni is a unique and important ecosystem. It's also a popular tourist destination and the location of an enormous lithium reserve, making Uyuni a source of national pride, contention, and incredible untapped wealth.

The Salar de Uyuni as it appears today is the result of cyclical changes in the regional climate. According to one study, the Altiplano was covered by large paleolakes during the last glacial stage. These lakes waxed and waned throughout that time, with colder climates engendering greater precipitation and larger lakes. The paleolakes dried up during the Holocene (the geological epoch that began 11,700 years ago and continues to the present), creating the salar: a dried salt crust that is sporadically covered in a thin layer of water. It's an inhospitable environment, one in which a limited number of specialized plant and animal species can survive, including three species of flamingo that congregate on the flats every November to breed. But inventive humans have discovered innumerable ways to put the salt flat to use, from shooting seductive photographs to measuring the terrain to improve satellites that orbit the Earth.

A group of scientists conducted a survey of the Salar de Uyuni. Driving a group of SUVS with GPS antennas mounted to the roof, the researchers crisscrossed a 45-by-54-km patch of the salar. They were surprised to discover that the salt flat didn't live up to its name- it wasn't entirely flat. A broad ridge runs from the southwest to the northeast. The high and low points are spread so far apart (50 km) and have such a slight difference in elevation (77 cm) that less precise survey equipment had never picked up on the ridge before. It's all but invisible to the naked eye. The team theorized that the peaks and troughs correspond to the local gravity field. When rain floods the Uyuni every year it dissolves the surface layer of salt and follows the local gravity field. If not for the curvature in the Earth and these minute variations in gravity, the Uyuni would be completely flat. But its lack of perfection was a boon to the scientists who discovered it: their research helped to calibrate the altitude-measuring instruments of an Earth-orbiting satellite tasked with monitoring ice sheets. The minor variation in the surface of the Salar de Uyuni cut the uncertainty of the satellite's altitude data in half.

But the Uyuni's most valuable property isn't its topography, its ecological rarity, or the tourism revenue it generates. It's the precious metal that lies just below the surface, a blue-green brine filled with lithium that was deposited by ancient volcanic activity. Lithium is the world's lightest metal, used in batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric cars, and the Salar de Uyuni holds around 5.4 million tons of the world's total 11 million.

When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office, he promised to nationalize some of the country's natural resources and use them to invigorate the local economy. The country opened a $19 million lithium-production plant in 2013, and Morales has told reporters that at least 60 percent of profits from lithium mining must stay in the country. But the high cost of mining and the lack of infrastructure forced Morales to court foreign investors.

Engineering firms in Germany and Switzerland placed bids to build lithium plants near the Salar de Uyuni after the Bolivian government announced it would accept engineering plans for the exploitation of its lithium fields. The mining process involves pumping brine to the surface, allowing the water to dry in evaporation pools, then harvesting the minerals that remain-mainly salt and lithium. For years the indigenous Aymara people have harvested common table salt from the Uyuni, wearing wooden masks or sheets to protect their eyes from the gleaming sun. Lithium mining on a large scale, however, could destroy the Salar's ecosystem.

The ensuing dilemma is one that's haunted resource-rich countries for decades. Reap the rewards of mineral wealth and use these monetary gains to better the lives of impoverished people, but potentially destroy the natural ecosystem in the process. It's the quandary faced by Ecuador, who asked the world to pay them to leave oil in the ground since drilling would destroy one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. And like Ecuador, Bolivia seems to feel that the harder-to-quantify environmental value of the salt flats is worth less than the enormous monetary wealth mining will bring.

Perhaps someday the lithium buried beneath the Salar de Uyuni will power electric cars around the world, helping to reduce carbon emissions, improving the lives of millions. But for now it remains a uniquely haunting landscape, its past recorded in geologic history, its future uncertain.

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Stretching out toward a seemingly infinite horizon, its flat surface making a mirror of the sky during the rainy season, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat. The salar (Spanish for "salt lake") belongs to the Altiplano of the high Andes, the world's second-largest plateau.

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Salar de Uyuni is the largest and majestic highest desert in the world that is perpetually salt. In addition to the salt it contains, it represents the largest lithium reserve on the planet. Located at an elevation of about 3650 meters above sea level, this salt has an unimaginable mineral and natural wealth. Of the wonders and natural graces that can be found in the Salar de Uyuni, there are numerous lagoons covered with extraordinary beauties that you can see in the tour salar de uyuni. In reality, this salt has become one of the most important destinations of the Republic of Bolivia. Therefore, knowing it can be a great and great experience for tourists who visit it.

With an approximate of 70 thousand tourists that visit, this annual salt is one of the favorite places for those who visit Bolivia. This has huge cacti, as well as the proximity to hotels built with blocks of salt, forming different islands characterized by their attractive and charming air, which conquers and enamours the different globetrotters and walkers who come to this enigmatic and moving place.

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From Bolivia, the great heights that most of its territory possesses are valued. It is a country located in the central-western region of South America, which in addition to having great heights and a variable diversity of elevations, is a nation that has beautiful sites for tourism such as: the Titicaca and its Lake, the City of Potosí, Madidi Park, El Salar de Uyuni, among others.

Salar de Uyuni is the largest and majestic highest desert in the world that is perpetually salt. In addition to the salt it contains, it represents the largest lithium reserve on the planet. Located at an elevation of about 3650 meters above sea level, this salt has an unimaginable mineral and natural wealth. Of the wonders and natural graces that can be found in the Salar de Uyuni, there are numerous lagoons covered with extraordinary beauties that you can see in the tour salar de uyuni. In reality, this salt has become one of the most important destinations of the Republic of Bolivia. Therefore, knowing it can be a great and great experience for tourists who visit it.

An incredible place

With an approximate of 70 thousand tourists that visit, this annual salt is one of the favorite places for those who visit Bolivia. This has huge cacti, as well as the proximity to hotels built with blocks of salt, forming different islands characterized by their attractive and charming air, which conquers and enamours the different globetrotters and walkers who come to this enigmatic and moving place.

What are the best places to go when visiting the Salar de Uyuni?

Among the diversity of sites that can be seen when going to the Salar de Uyuni, the following three that are explained below captivate and catch tourists at first sight.

1.- The Laguna Colorada, wonderful and amazing, characterized by the fact that its waters have a red color in its waters, which is due to the red sedimentation, as well as the nuances that have some algae.

2.- The Incahuasi Island, which is surrounded by salt, can be seen in this giant cactus that can measure up to 10 meters high. On this island you can not only enjoy the salt flat, but you can also see a sky dyed a cobalt blue color.

3.- The Pillars of Salt, which are small columns or seats of salt that fascinate tourists who seek in the perception of simple issues, delighting by looking at the contemplation of these foundations of salt.

In conclusion, the Salar de Uyuni is a fantastic and wonderful territory for all the tourists that visit and greet it. Its saline formations, its reflections at dawn, its pillars of salt, its spontaneous views of clouds and mountains, make this salt a marvelous and miraculous site for the errant walkers.

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Why does the Salar de Uyuni attract so many tourists?

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From Bolivia, the great heights that most of its territory possesses are valued. It is a country located in the central-western region of South America, which in addition to having great heights and a variable diversity of elevations, is a nation that has beautiful sites for tourism such as: the Titicaca and its Lake, the City of Potosí, Madidi Park, El Salar de Uyuni, among others.

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Containing an estimated 10 billion tones of salt, the question often a rises as to how salar de uyuni was formed. Essentially, the Altiplano (high plateau) here had no drainage outlets, which meant that water from the surrounding mountains once collected to form a giant lake. High salinity meant that whilst this vast, prehistoric lake has long since evaporated under the fierce Andean sun, a thick crust of salt remains, forming what we now recognize as the salt flats of salar de uyuni. Another explanation is Aymaran legend provides an alternate explanation, involving the mountains were once giant people, and Tunuea and Kushu were married. When Kushu betrayed his wife for Kusina, Tunueas tears are said to have formed the salt flats.

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Facts & Information - Beautiful World Travel Guide

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Salar de Uyuni Facts & Information, Bolivia - When to visit Travel Guide

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Salar de Uyuni is the worlds largest salt flat, spanning 4086 square miles (10,582 sq. km) in south-western Bolivia. Unlike traditional deserts, which have sand in abundance, the Salar de Uyuni features vast expanses of glistening white salt. The landscape is entirely flat, bar a few small 'islands' such as Isla Incahuasi, which only accentuates ...

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The meandering, bumpy dirt roads, the thin air at high altitude, the ordeal of bringing labor into the blinding white plain of the world’s largest salt flat—all of this stands between anyone who dreams of retrieving Bolivia’s lithium riches and turning it into electric-car batteries.
Lithium Prices

Lithium prices reached historic levels earlier this year, with lithium carbonate from South America selling at an average of $15,700 per ton in May and June before prices fell to around $14,375 per ton in October, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Berry expects lithium prices to plateau at around $12,000 per ton, at which nearly a third of the projects currently in the pipeline would fall off the cost curve. Bolivia’s big gamble would be marginal at best.