During the flooding season, it transforms into something really incredible: the world’s largest mirror. Salar de Uyuni is roughly 25 times the size of Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States and is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt, of which less than 25,000 tons is extracted annually. When the lake dried, it left behind two modern lakes, Poopó and Uru Uru, and two major salt deserts, Salar de Coipasa, and the larger Salar de Uyuni. Salar De Uyuni, the biggest and probably the most popular salt flat in the world, is located in southwest Bolivia near the crest of the Andes, at 3.650 meters (11,975 feet) above sea level and stretches for 10,582 sq km (4,086 sq mi). Some 40,000 years ago, the area was part of Lake Minchin, a giant prehistoric lake.
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