The Natural Monument Salar de Atacama is located in II the Region, to the
interior of
the National Reserve the Flamenco ones
, is a fantastic landscape that are
characterized by its extensive saline coast, saline mud and mud. The Salar de
Atacama is greatest of Chile, with a surface that surpasses 3,000 km 2
. The air is extraordinarily dry here, which gives a perfect transparency
him, as much, that at first it is easy to see the other end of salar, to about
70 kilometers. Under salar there is a lake, hidden by a thickness and rough scab
of salt, that contains the greater lithium reserves of the world, a mineral used
in some industries of high technology and that is operated in the South sector
of salar.
The environs of salar also offer a great amount of attractive:
Of the North side and the west it is in favor the Mountain range of the Salt,
a hill chain with form of tortured dinosaurios through which the route of Calama
to San Pedro de Atacama runs, point of entrance when salar. Formerly, this one
was the bottom of a lake. The horizontal layers of sediment and rock, that date
from makes about 23 million years, were pushed and folded by such movements of
the crust terrestrial that raised the Mountain range of the $andes, being some
layers On guard vertical. The wind and rain made the rest of the work of
modelaje. The Mountain range name of the Salt derives from the
fact that their rocks have a great amount of calcium sulphate, which gives the
aspect them to be splashed with salt.
