Picture of the Day: World’s largest natural mirror!

Publicat de Cosmin Meca, 14 august 2015, 13:28 / actualizat: 30 ianuarie 2021, 11:11

Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world’s largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located 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 mean sea level.

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 altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar.

When covered with rainwater, the Salar de Uyuni salt flat becomes the world’s largest natural mirror!