Salar de Atacama
Salar de Atacama, located 55 km south of San Pedro de Atacama, is the largest salt flat in Chile. It is surrounded by mountains and lacks drainage outlets.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Francesco Mocellin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salar de Atacama
- Type: Salt area
- Description: Endorheic drainage basin and salt pan
- Categories: salt pan, lake, endorheic basin, body of water, and landform
- Location: Antofagasta, Chile, South America
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Venetian—“Salar de Atacama” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Salar de Atakama”
- Basque: “Atacamako gatz-lautada”
- Bavarian: “Salar de Atacama”
- Belarusian: “Салар-дэ-Атакама”
- Catalan: “Salar d’Atacama”
- Catalan: “Salar de Atacama”
- Cebuano: “Salar de Atacama”
- Chinese: “阿塔卡馬鹽沼”
- Chinese: “阿塔卡马盐沼”
- Czech: “Salar de Atacama”
- Dutch: “Salar de Atacama”
- Esperanto: “Salar de Atacama”
- Esperanto: “Salejo de Atakama”
- Esperanto: “Salejo de Atakamo”
- French: “Salar d’Atacama”
- French: “Salar de Atacama”
- French: “Salines d’Atacama”
- German: “Salar de Atacama”
- Italian: “Salar de Atacama”
- Japanese: “アタカマ塩原”
- Japanese: “アタカマ塩湖”
- Lithuanian: “Atakamos druskos lyguma”
- Lithuanian: “Atakamos druskožemis”
- Lithuanian: “Salar de Atacama”
- Lithuanian: “Salar de Atakama”
- Macedonian: “Салар де Атакама”
- Persian: “سالار د آتاکاما”
- Persian: “سالار د اتاکاما”
- Polish: “Salar de Atacama”
- Portuguese: “Salar de Atacama”
- Quechua: “Atakama kachi qucha”
- Russian: “Атакама”
- Russian: “Атакамский солончак”
- Russian: “Салар-де-Атакама”
- Serbian: “Salar de Atakama”
- Slovenian: “Salar de Atacama”
- Spanish: “Salar de Atacama”
- Swedish: “Salar de Atacama”
- Turkish: “Atacama Salar”
- Turkish: “Salar de Atacama”
- Ukrainian: “Атакама”
- Ukrainian: “Салар-де-Атакама”
- Venetian: “Salar de Atacama”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Salar de Atacama”. Photo: Francesco Mocellin, CC BY-SA 3.0.