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Salar De Uyuni

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Uyuni, Salar De 

a salt flat on an inner plateau of the Central Andes in Bolivia. Covering an area of approximately 10,000 sq km, the Salar de Uyuni is one of the largest salt flats in the world. It is situated at an elevation of approximately 3,700 m, to the south of the Altiplano, a desert plateau. It is covered with water during the summer rains.



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The leaders also signed a deal increasing Iran's involvement in mining research in Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast salt desert near the Chilean border that holds half the world's known reserves of lithium -- a key mineral used in rechargeable batteries for cell phones, laptops and electric cars.
It was a very unfavorable deal for Bolivia," recalls Francisco Quisbert, executive secretary of FRUTCAS, the Spanish acronym for Southern Highlands Regional Federation of Workers and Peasants, an organization that represents farmers in the Salar de Uyuni region.
From the blinding flats of the Salar de Uyuni salt-harvesting region to the inhospitable climes of Cerro Rico and the treacherous shafts and bouldered crags of the Potosi ore mines, this compelling road movie/coming-of-age story is intensely rich in color, sound, beauty, and emotion.
 
 
 
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