Video: Uyuni salt flat. The salt of the earth and the mirror of the world
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Salt marshes they can hardly win a prize in the competition of the most cheerful landscapes: all around is the whistling wind, white salt and the baking sun. But if you think saline plains cannot be beautiful, then you are simply underestimating Mother Nature. Colossal Uyuni salt marsh in Bolivia - the largest and most beautiful salt plain on the planet, which is sometimes the "salt of the earth" and sometimes the "mirror of the world".
In ancient times Uyuni salt marsh was a huge salt lake Minchin on the high plain of the Altiplano. But time did not spare it, and it almost completely dried up, mostly turning into a huge sparkling salt desert with an area of 10,582 square kilometers. The Uyuni salt marsh is perfectly visible from space: the shell 2-8 meters thick whitens cleaner than the clouds themselves. This is an excellent transport artery, smoother than any road.
And when it rains, the white handkerchief on the world map turns into a huge mirror. A thin (several centimeters) layer of water that covers the salt reflects the sky. The Uyuni Salt Flats is an ideal tool for checking and calibrating satellite remote sensing devices: it is the smoothest place on the planet, and even waves and ripples do not disturb the idyllic mirror order.
Uyuni Salt Flats prized by Bolivians as salt source: 25 thousand tons are mined every year. But this is nonsense compared to the booty of yesteryear. The memory of those times is the steam locomotive cemetery of the middle of the last century, which they want to turn into a museum. It also contains most of the world's lithium reserves.
But above all, the Uyuni salt marsh is not an open-air quarry, but a travel destination. Tens and hundreds of thousands of tourists come here: admire the endless sky, breathe in the salty air, live in the Hotel de Sal Playa salt hotel … And when three species of beautiful pink flamingos nesting on the salt marsh arrive here and fluffy llamas come to eat salt, it becomes clear: in nature, nothing is lifeless.
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