On my first trip to Bolivia's capital, La Paz, a decade ago, I spotted travel posters for this unique region where the world's biggest salt plain, Salar de Uyuni, stretches toward a bizarre ...

The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium.

In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour's flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles.

The image shows part of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt flat in the world. Occupying over 10 000 sq km, the vast Salar de Uyuni lies at the southern end of the Altiplano, a high ...

At Salar de Uyuni, you’ve got plenty of different types of “salt”, including sodium borate, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, and several lithium compounds.

Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt lake with a surface of 12,000 square kilometres. It is situated in the southwest of Bolivia at an altitude of 3,653 metres above sea ...

Southwest Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is not only the world’s largest salt flat, but also the largest mirrorat 6,575 square miles.

This dormant volcano gives the salt flat its traditional name – Salar de Tunupa – and plays a part in indigenous theories of its creation, according to which the mountain goddess Yana Pollera ...

Imagine a land so big it’s bigger than Jamaica. Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia. It’s not just big; it’s also full of natural wonders. Underneath its surface ...