SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — In the southwestern corner of Bolivia, about an hour’s flight from La Paz, the blinding white Salar de Uyuni salt flat stretches for more than 4,500 square miles.

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is considered one of the most extreme and remarkable vistas in all of South America, if not Earth. Stretching more than 4,050 square miles of the Altiplano, it is the ...

Earlier this week I wrote about my trip to Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia’s mesmerizing salt flats where I also stayed in a hotel made entirely of salt. The landscape is vast and barren with no houses ...

It's actually salt — and lots of it. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is 3,659 meters (12,000 feet) above sea level. The world's largest salt flat, it's home to 70 percent of the world's lithium ...

Salar de Uyuni is markedly flat, providing variation of its surface elevation of less than 1 meter. The level surface of Uyuni provides a unique and ideal place for calibrating satellite radar ...

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science THE Salar de Uyuni salt flats of Bolivia, covering more than 10,000 ...