Salar de Uyuni finds in the region of Potosi
and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia which is near the crest of the Andes.
It has afflicted the elevation of approx 3656 meters above the mean sea level.
Salar de Uyuni is the largest flat area in the world with an endless sheet of hexagonal
tiles which are naturally created by
the crystalline nature of salt and they
are dotted with pyramids of salt.
Minchin Lake was a part of a prehistoric salt lake which covers most of
southwestern Bolivia. In the season of summer it dries up and leaves behind
several seasonal puddles and enormous salt pans including Salar de Uyuni. The savage and outrageous
beauty of his vivid and vast salt lake desert makes it South America’s most spectacular
inspirational venue.
The dryness of the deserts in here the freezing
night temperature and the fierce desert sun which is scorching doesn’t not make
itself extinct o life survival on to itself. The wildlife in here is yet to be
flourished. Till date Pink Flamingos, Ancient Cacti and the rarest hummingbirds
are still alive in Salar de Uyuni. Every November Salar de Uyuni is proved to
be the breeding ground for three rare species of pink South American Flamingos
namely the Chilean.
Probably the color pink originates on them due
to the consumption of pink algae on the land. Not only these are about more
than eighty other bird species present in here which includes birds like Homed
Coot, Andean Goose and Andean Hillstar. Andean fox is a type of a fox and is
also familiar as Culpeo in a representative animal. Even the islands of Salar de Uyuni host colonies of an animal which resembles to rabbit known
as Viscachas and this is found particularly in Incahuasi
Island.
When the lakes in the Salar de Uyuni dried up back in over hundreds and
thousands years ago their rich salt was left and this turned to be the unique
selling point of this place. Due to so
much of salt in abundance available in
here it became the thick salt crust that coats the region entirely in
current times. The shallow pools of brine
which is a solution of salt in ware rich in lithium and contains almost
70 percentage of world’s reserves. The clouds in here often break into clear
blue skies with blue and white reflections seen below on the sheets of salt
which is a clear as ice. This exclusive salt lake place though being a little
extinct attracts tourists to companies to mine the layers as there is abundance
of salt potassium, lithium and magnesium available from surface. It is also a
great transport route especially in dry seasons