The Natural Monument Salar de Surire is located in I Region, to the interior of the National Park the
Vicunas, has a surface of 11,298 hectares.
Its name must to the species animal characteristic of
the called place "suri" or ñandú. Its Eastern zone was declared Natural Monument
in 1983, with the purpose of preserving the varied fauna that inhabits the
place.
This zone is of great thermal oscillation,
fluctuating its temperatures between -15°C in the nights of winter and 5°C
during the day. Their annual precipitations reach an average of 250 mm, and in
general the temperatures average of the year are between 5°C and -5°C.
Its relief is characterized to present/display a flat
surface, that corresponds to the one of the Salar de Surire, with a predominant
altitude in its center, 4,322 meters, that correspond to the Oquealla Hill. The
land that includes/understands the National Monument, characterizes by a vast
number of lagoons of variable size and only two affluent rivers when salar. Both
of modest volume are the River Surire or Casinane and the Blanco River.
Routes of access
It is possible to be acceded by means of highway CH
11 from Arica, to the height of kilometer 165 is due to take the deflection in
the direction of the Southeast by a dirt road.
