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Salar de Uyuni (Spanish Salar de Uyuni)

- a dried-up salt lake in the south of the desert plain Altiplano, Bolivia at an altitude of 3,650 m above sea level. It has an area of ​​10 582 km ² and is the largest salt marsh in the world. Situated near the town of Uyuni in the departments of Oruro and Potosi in the south -west. The main minerals - halite and gypsum.
The inner part is covered with a layer of salt thickness of 2.8 m. During the rainy season is covered with a thin layer of saline water and is transformed into the world's largest mirror surface .