🧂 Salar de Pedernales

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Salar de Pedernales is a large salt flat in the Atacama Region of Chile. It lies east of the Cordillera Domeyko at an elevation of 3,370 metres (11,060 ft). The salt flat has an irregular shape and consists mostly of gypsum and rock salt, with an area of 0.6 to 1.1 square kilometres covered by open water. During the late Pleistocene, the climate was wetter and thus open water covered a much larger area of Salar de Pedernales.

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Salar de Pedernales is located in Chile, in Americas.

More salt pans in Chile

Laguna Lejía · Laguna Miñiques · Salar de Ascotán · Salar de Atacama · Salar de Carcote · Salar de Punta Negra · Salar de Talar · Salar del Huasco.

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