On the whole, the Salar de Uyuni is very flat, with a surface elevation variation of less than 1 m. This makes the area ideal for calibrating satellite radar altimeters – a kind of radar ...

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is considered one of the most extreme and remarkable vistas in all of South America, if not Earth. Stretching more than 4,050 square miles of the Altiplano, it is the ...

Salar de Uyuni is markedly flat, providing variation of its surface elevation of less than 1 meter. The level surface of Uyuni provides a unique and ideal place for calibrating satellite radar ...

SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — 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.

Salar de Uyuni likely contains the lion's share of the resource — 11.2 million tons (10.2 million metric tons), or about 38% of the world's known lithium supplies, according to a 2012 study.

The most popular bar in Uyuni is Extreme Fun ... Volcán Tunupa was coming into view. This dormant volcano gives the salt flat its traditional name – Salar de Tunupa – and plays a part in ...

Travelers often seek out the world’s most dramatic landscapes: the unearthly karst formations of southern China, the stark beauty of Iceland, the dizzying canyons of the American Southwest.

The Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest and most staggeringly beautiful salt flat, hides within the folds of the Bolivian ...

Prehistoric lakes once covered Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni near the crest of the Andes. When these lakes dried up over hundreds of thousands of years, their rich salt content was left behind ...

Perky vicunas canter across a DayGlo-orange lagoon. Suspiciously extraterrestrial-looking green blobs of vegetation have invaded patches of stark desert, and bunnies with long, fluffy tails hop ...