Salt evaporation pond

A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines. The salt pans are shallow and expansive, allowing sunlight to penetrate and reach the seawater.
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  • Town with 40,200 residents
  • Description: shallow artificial pond designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines
  • Also known as
    “Salinas”
    “salt pan”
    “salt pit”
    “saltern”

Salt evaporation pond

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Latitude
-16.1701° or 16° 10′ 12″ south
Longitude
-42.28966° or 42° 17′ 23″ west
Open location code
58MVRPH6+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246671491
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Wiki­data ID
Q244326

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Salt evaporation pond” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ملاحات”
  • Aragonese: “Salina”
  • Basque: “eguzki lurrunketako gatzaga”
  • Basque: “Eguzki lurrunketako gatzaga”
  • Belarusian: “саляная сажалка”
  • Bulgarian: “Солници”
  • Bulgarian: “Солодобив”
  • Catalan: “salina”
  • Catalan: “Salina”
  • Chinese: “盐田”
  • Chinese: “鹽灘”
  • Chinese: “鹽田”
  • Croatian: “Solana”
  • Czech: “salina”
  • Dutch: “zoutpan”
  • Dutch: “Zoutpan”
  • Esperanto: “salejo”
  • Esperanto: “Salejo”
  • Finnish: “suolan haihdutuslampi”
  • French: “marais salant”
  • French: “Marais salant”
  • French: “marais salin”
  • French: “Paludier”
  • French: “Saliculteur”
  • French: “Salicutlteur”
  • French: “saline”
  • Galician: “salina”
  • German: “Saline”
  • German: “Salinen”
  • German: “Salzgarten”
  • German: “Salzgärten”
  • Greek: “Αλυκή”
  • Hebrew: “בריכת אידוי למלח”
  • Hungarian: “szalina”
  • Hungarian: “Szalina”
  • Ido: “Salino”
  • Indonesian: “Tambak garam”
  • Italian: “salina”
  • Italian: “Salina”
  • Japanese: “塩田”
  • Javanese: “Tambak uyah”
  • Korean: “염전”
  • Latin: “Salina”
  • Literary Chinese: “鹽田”
  • Low German: “salinen”
  • Low German: “Salinen”
  • Macedonian: “солана”
  • Malayalam: “ഉപ്പളം”
  • Marathi: “मिठागरे”
  • Mazanderani: “سالیناس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iâm-tiâⁿ”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salina”
  • Persian: “حوضچه تبخیر نمک”
  • Persian: “حوضچهٔ تبخیر نمک”
  • Polish: “Salina”
  • Portuguese: “salina”
  • Portuguese: “Salina”
  • Romanian: “iaz de evaporare a sării”
  • Romanian: “mlaștină sărată”
  • Russian: “соляной пруд”
  • Russian: “Соляной пруд”
  • Serbian: “Solana”
  • Serbian: “Солана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Solana”
  • Slovenian: “solina”
  • Slovenian: “soline”
  • Slovenian: “Soline”
  • Spanish: “salina”
  • Spanish: “Salina”
  • Swedish: “salin”
  • Swedish: “Salin”
  • Tamil: “உப்பளம்”
  • Telugu: “ఉప్పు నీటి కయ్యలు”
  • Thai: “นาเกลือ”
  • Thai: “นาเชื้อ”
  • Thai: “นาตาก”
  • Thai: “นาปลง”
  • Turkish: “Tuzla (tuz üretimi)”
  • Turkish: “Tuzla”
  • Ukrainian: “соляний ставок”
  • Ukrainian: “Соляний ставок”
  • Vietnamese: “ruộng muối”
  • Vietnamese: “Ruộng muối”
  • Yue Chinese: “鹽田”

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