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📍Location: Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department . Salar de Uyuni, amid the #Andes in southwest Bolivia, is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s the legacy of a #prehistoric lake that went dry, leaving behind a desertlike, nearly 11,000-sq.-km. landscape of bright-white salt, rock formations and cacti-studded islands. Its otherworldly expanse can be observed from central Incahuasi Island. Though wildlife is rare in this unique ecosystem, it harbors many pink flamingos. . 📽Video by: @everchanginghorizon . The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average elevation variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar. The crust 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 known lithium reserves according to a 2009 Foreign Policy article by Joshua Keating.The large area, clear skies, and exceptional flatness of the surface make the Salar ideal for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites.Following rain, a thin layer of dead calm water transforms the flat into the world's largest mirror, 129 kilometres (80 miles) across. The Salar serves as the major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano and is a major breeding ground for several species of flamingos. Salar de Uyuni is also a climatological transitional zone since the towering tropical cumulus congestus and cumulonimbus incus clouds that form in the eastern part of the salt flat during the summer cannot permeate beyond its drier western edges, near the Chilean border and the Atacama Desert. . . . . #go_visit_enjoy #salardeuyuni #boliviatrip #boliviatravel #incahuasiisland #desertlike #felamingosland #bolivia #boliviaplain #boliviadestinations (at Salar De Uyuni - Bolivia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sAd90AW-k/?igshid=otkv2lt1jbha