An extremely flat expanse of land encrusted with salt and other evaporite minerals, formed where a shallow desert lake has repeatedly evaporated, concentrating dissolved salts until they crystallize as a hard surface crust. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest, formed this way over many cycles of flooding and evaporation in a closed desert basin.
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Its elevation is 3,730 feet (1,137 m).
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If the water cannot drain into the ground, it remains on the surface until it evaporates, leaving behind minerals precipitated from the salt ions dissolved in the water.
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