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The Great Atacama Salt Lake |
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 The Salar de Atacama spreads out to the South of San Pedro de Atacama on a surface of 3,000 square kilometers and at 2,305 meters above sea level. It is a plain Located between the Andes Mountain Range and the Domeyko Mountain Range and bordering the Salt Mountain Range ...
 This vast sea of salt is made up of small blue, turquoise, pink or gray salty lagoons, formed by streams of surfacing water from a large salt lake that lies beneath the white crusty layer. The Salar de Atacama is a very important source of financial development due to the mining excavation of potassium, boron, magnesium and especially lithium of which this region holds 40% of the world's reserves.
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