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FLATTEST

PLACE ON EARTH

STATS AND FACTS

SALTY LAKE SALT MINING
The Salar lies on a Flood water
plateau of the high on the Salar Every year,
about 27,000
Andes, surrounded becomes eight tons of salt
by mountains. The times saltier is mined from
salt flat itself is up than seawater. Salar de Uyuni.
to 33 ft (10 m) thick.
LITHIUM SOURCE SALT BRICKS
The Salar contains Hotels are built
about 50% of the on the Salar from
world’s lithium, salt bricks; they
a metal used in must be repaired
CONTAINS ABOUT batteries. when it rains.
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BILLION
TONS OF SALT
DEPOSITS

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