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Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni: the world's largest natural mirror

Original: 🪞 This is the world's largest mirror — and it's a desert made of salt. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni spans 10,582 km² (bigger

Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, spans roughly 10,582 square kilometres, an area larger than the US state of Connecticut. Each rainy season a thin layer of water covers the salt crust, transforming the extraordinarily flat surface into a vast natural mirror that reflects the sky for miles.

Why now: Striking images of the flooded salt flat reflecting the sky are being shared widely online.

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• 🪞 This is the world's largest mirror — and it's a desert made of salt. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni spans 10,582 km² (bigger than Connecticut). Each rainy season, a few centimeters of water flood the salt crust, turning it into an 80-mile-wide mirror of the sky — so perfectly flat… · eatrics · 3

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