Uyuni Municipality
Uyuni Municipality is the first municipal section of the Antonio Quijarro Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Uyuni.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Herr stahlhoefer, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Railroad Museum and Uyuni train station.
Uyuni train station
Railway station
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Uyuni train station is a railway station.
Uyuni Airport
Aerodrome
Uyuni Airport, also known as Joya Andina Airport, is an airport at extremely high elevation just northwest of Uyuni, in the southwestern Potosí Department of Bolivia. Uyuni Airport is situated 4 km northwest of Uyuni Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uyuni.
Uyuni
Uyuni is a tourist town in Potosí Department, Bolivia, which serves as the main gateway to Salar de Uyuni, the enormous salt flat nearby.
Uyuni Municipality
- Type: Residential area
- Description: municipality of Bolivia
- Category: municipality of Bolivia
- Location: Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-20.4604° or 20° 27′ 37″ southLongitude
-66.8216° or 66° 49′ 18″ westPopulation
29,700Elevation
3,667 metres (12,031 feet)Open location code
57FMG5QH+V9OpenStreetMap ID
way 416457200OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
11494489Wikidata ID
Q1478014
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Uyuni Municipality” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Uyuni Chhī”
- Chinese: “乌尤尼市镇”
- Chinese: “烏尤尼市鎮”
- Dutch: “Uyuni”
- French: “Catégorie:Uyuni”
- Georgian: “უიუნის მუნიციპალიტეტი”
- German: “Municipio Uyuni”
- German: “Uyuni”
- Italian: “Uyuni”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Uyuni Chhī”
- Mingrelian: “უიუნიშ მუნიციპალიტეტი”
- Quechua: “Huanchaca kantun”
- Quechua: “Huanchaca”
- Quechua: “Pulacayo kantun”
- Quechua: “Thola Pampa munisipyu”
- Quechua: “Thula Pampa munisipyu”
- Quechua: “Uyuni munisipyu”
- Quechua: “Uyuni”
- Quechua: “Wanchaka kantun”
- Quechua: “Wanchaka”
- Russian: “Уюни”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Uyuni”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Estancia Villapujo and Lamajara.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Uyuni Municipality”. Photo: Herr stahlhoefer, Public domain.