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.

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 ...

Introduction to Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, known for its stunning views and unique geology. It covers over 4,000 square miles in Bolivia’s Potosí region.

The salt crust of this high-country desert, the Salar de Uyuni, shimmers whitely in the harsh sun up at almost 12,000 feet. Seasonal shallow lakes create a spectacle of reflected sky, making it ...

Salar de Uyuni is a salt desert that stretches across 4,085 square miles of South America. It's twice the size of Delaware, but as flat as the plains of Kansas, nestled in southwestern 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.

It is called the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat. Stretching across more than 10,000 square kilometres, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salar de Uyuni is a salt desert that stretches across 4,085 square miles of South America. It's twice the size of Delaware, but as flat as the plains of Kansas, nestled in southwestern Bolivia.