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The Salinas Grandes are located in the north in the provinces of Jujuy and Salta (in Argentina), at an average altitude of 3,450 meters (11,320 feet) above sea level. It covers an area of 212 km 2 (82 sq mi) and is well-known for its vast white desert. [1]
Salt pan at Lake Karum in Ethiopia. Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial). A salt pan forms by evaporation of a water pool, such as a lake or ...
The nearest salt flats are the ones of Antofalla, Hombre Muerto (both in the north of Catamarca Province), Pocitos (in the east) and the Salinas Grandes of Jujuy and Salta provinces. The Salar de Arizaro is crossed in the middle by the Salta–Antofagasta railway and the Provincial Route 27 [1] (part of the former RN 59).
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Salar de Uyuni (or "Salar de Tunupa") [1] is the world's largest salt flat, or playa, at 10,582 square kilometres (4,086 sq mi) in area. [2] [3] It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes at an elevation of 3,656 m (11,995 ft) above sea level.
Salar del Hombre Muerto (transl. Salt Pan of the Dead Man) is a salt pan in Argentina, in the Antofagasta de la Sierra Department [2] on the border between the Salta and Catamarca Provinces. [3] It covers an area of 600 square kilometres (230 sq mi) and is in part covered by debris.
Some environmentalists say Eramet's project is the latest threat to previously untouched salt flats. "They are a perfect system of equilibrium, of life," said Mara Puntano, an activist in Salta ...
Some areas of the salt flat form part of Los Flamencos National Reserve. The Laguna Cejar is a sink hole lake in the Salar de Atacama, 18 km from San Pedro, Chile. It has a salt concentration that ranges from 5 to 28% (50 to 280 parts per thousand), producing at the higher end of the range an effect of floating like the Dead Sea. [10]