QUICK FACTS
Name: Salar de Uyuni
Location: Andean plateau, southwest Bolivia
Coordinates: -20.279074890164193, -67.35323215355417
Why it's incredible: The salt flat is the largest on Earth and contains a huge chunk of the world's lithium.
Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching roughly 4,000 square miles (10,400 square kilometers) across the Andean plateau. Uyuni is famous for its gleaming expanses of salt bathed in water, and for the mesmerizing honeycomb patterns found in the desert's driest corners.
