Salar de Uyuni- World's Largest Salt Flat

The world's largest salt flat is located in south west Bolivia. It was created over 40,000 years ago when a large prehistoric lake, lake Minchin, dried up. There are approximately 10 billion tons of salt in the flat of which 25,000 are extracted each year (if I've done my math correctly it would take 400 years at the current rate to completely remove all the salt).

Attractions include the November flamingo migrations and the Salt Hotel. The flats also contain one of the highest deposits of Lithium, which the Government plans on extracting itself.