Coipasa Salt Pan

The Salar de Coipasa occupies a broad, enclosed basin of the western Bolivian altiplano. Its white salt crust surrounds shallow saline waters and wetlands, remnants of a much larger ancient lake. Flamingos feed in the waters and nearby marshes, while volcanic mountains rise beyond the flat horizon. The salt pan lies north of the still larger Salar de Uyuni in the dry highland interior.