Coipasa Salt Flat — ▪ salt flat, Bolivia Spanish Salar de Coipasa salt flat, in the arid but colourful Altiplano of Bolivia, about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of the city of Oruro, near the Chilean border. At an elevation of 12,073 feet (3,680 metres), the… … Universalium
Uyuni — ▪ Bolivia town, southwestern Bolivia. It lies on the cold, windswept Altiplano, a high intermontane plateau, at 12,024 feet (3,665 metres) above sea level, just east of the vast Uyuni Salt Flat. Founded in 1890, it prospered, with the assistance … Universalium
Salt storm — A salt storm is a low lying cloud of airborne salt that hovers over large areas, the result of wind sweeping over salt flats. Salt storms usually occur in places with large aboveground deposits of salt, such as those surrounding the Great Salt… … Wikipedia
Salar de Uyuni — (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world s largest salt flatcite web | url=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img id=17120 | title=Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia | publisher=NASA Earth Observatory | accessdate=2007 12 01] at 10,582 … Wikipedia
Bolivia — Bolivian, adj., n. /beuh liv ee euh, boh /; Sp. /baw lee vyah/, n. 1. a republic in W South America. 7,669,868; 404,388 sq. mi. (1,047,370 sq. km). Caps.: La Paz and Sucre. 2. (often l.c.) a twill fabric made of cut pile with lines either in the… … Universalium
Dry lake — Salt Flat redirects here. For the settlement, see Salt Flat, Texas. Devil s Golf Course in Death Valley National Park, western United States … Wikipedia
Salar de Atacama — is the largest salt flat in Chile.cite web| title = The Optical/Infrared Astronomical Quality of High Atacama Sites. | url=http://www.astro.cornell.edu/research/projects/atacama/J Darling.pdf| accessdate = 2007 04 24] It is located 55 km south of … Wikipedia
Bolivia — This article is about the South American country. For other uses, see Bolivia (disambiguation). Plurinational State of Bolivia Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia … Wikipedia
Playa — A playa (or pan) is a dry or ephemeral lakebed, generally extending to the shore, or a remnant of, an endorheic lake. Such flats consist of fine grained sediments infused with alkali salts. Playas are also known as alkali flats, sabkhas, dry… … Wikipedia
Makgadikgadi Pan — The Makgadikgadi pans are clearly visible to the right of the dark green broom shaped Okavango Delta in this satellite image of Botswana The Makgadikgadi Pan is a large salt pan in the middle of the dry savanna of northeastern Botswana. It is one … Wikipedia
