Salar de Uyuni (or "Salar de Tunupa") is the world's largest salt flat, or playa, at 10,582 square kilometres (4,086 sq mi) in area. It is in the Daniel...
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Uyuni (Aymara, uyu pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a pen", "the one with a pen") is a city...
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Uyuni Airport (IATA: UYU, ICAO: SLUY), also known as Joya Andina Airport, is an airport at extremely high elevation just northwest of Uyuni, in the southwestern...
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Uyuni Municipality is the first municipal section of the Antonio Quijarro Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Uyuni. The municipality...
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The Salar de Uyuni mine is one of the largest lithium mines in Bolivia[dubious – discuss] located in its southern region at Potosí Department. The Salar...
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Park in Namibia, is another prominent example of a salt pan. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt pan in the world. As of 2024, with an estimated...
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plateau to the west, where the largest salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located. Cerro Potosí was the richest province in the Spanish empire...
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Uyunid dynasty (redirect from Al Uyuni)
The famous poet Ali bin al Mugrab Al Uyuni is a Uyunid. In 1077–1078, an Arab sheikh named Abdullah bin Ali Al Uyuni defeated the Qarmatians in Bahrain...
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Uyuni (Aymara, uyu pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a pen", "the one with a pen") is a mountain...
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the ruling Qarmatian state. A local chief known as Abdullah bin Ali Al Uyuni aligned himself with the Abbasids and the Seljuk Empire, and started an...
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of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, 350 km (220 mi; 190 nmi) south of the La Paz department's capital La Paz. Salar de Uyuni is the world's...
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Ali bin al-Mugrab Al Uyuni (علي بن المقرب العيوني) was a Bahrani poet from Al-Hasa, who died in 630 AH or 1232 AD, one of the late known poets among the...
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of land and former island in Bolivia situated in the middle of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995...
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Abdullah bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Muhammad Al-Marri Al-Abdi Al Uyuni (Arabic: عبد الله بن علي بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن محمد المري العبدي الرعي العيوني)...
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New Mexico.[citation needed] Most dry lakes are small. However, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, near Potosí, the largest salt flat in the world, comprises 4...
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internationally as the Salar de Uyuni was once called the "Salar de Thunupa" at least from the colonial era. For Uyuni as such was only founded in 1889...
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in Bolivia north-east of Uyuni. It is situated in the Potosí Department, Antonio Quijarro Province, in the east of the Uyuni Municipality, at the border...
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the Black Stone. In 1077–1078, an Arab sheikh named Abdullah bin Ali Al Uyuni defeated the Qarmatians in Bahrain and al-Hasa with the help of the Seljuq...
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southern viscacha in the Sur Lipez desert, Bolivia Viscacha near Salar De Uyuni, 2017 A viscacha warms itself in the morning sun in the Andes mountains...
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EnergyX deployed its first LiTAS plant for operation at Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni location. EnergyX was established in 2018 by serial technology entrepreneur...
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Machu Picchu, Lima, Nazca Lines, Cuzco in Peru; Lake Titicaca, Salar de Uyuni, La Paz, Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos in Bolivia; Tayrona National Natural...
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evaporation ponds at the south end of the Dead Sea. Mounds of salt, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Chemistry portal Biosalinity Edible salt (table salt) Halite,...
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shared with Peru. Also in this region are the Altiplano and the Salar de Uyuni, which is the largest salt flat in the world and an important source of...
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and Poopó, a salt lake that extends south of Oruro, Bolivia. Salar de Uyuni, locally known as Salar de Tunupa, and Salar de Coipasa are two large dry...
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produce salt at Bo Kluea, Nan Province, Thailand. Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia Sea-salt pans in Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu, India Salt balls near...
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UYU may refer to: Uruguayan peso, the currency of Uruguay Uyuni Airport, southwestern Bolivia (IATA code: UYU) Uyu River, northern Myanmar This disambiguation...
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The film is set in the late 1920s in the small and remote mining town of Uyuni in the highlands of Bolivia, lying between a vast salt desert and towering...
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There are also six very derelict locos in the "Locomotive Graveyard" at Uyuni, Bolivia (October 2013). A number of large narrow gauge industrial locomotives...
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Bolivia, and according to the US Geological Survey, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni desert has 5.4 million tons of lithium. Other important reserves are located...
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Province Monte Fitz Roy, El Chalten Dali's Desert, Potosi Valle de Las Rocas, Uyuni Canon de Duene Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain), Rio de Janeiro Ponta...
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