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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
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
- Type: City with 25,000 residents
- Description: city in Bolivia
- Category: locality
- Location: Potosí, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Latitude
-20.4628° or 20° 27′ 46″ southLongitude
-66.8239° or 66° 49′ 26″ westPopulation
25,000Elevation
3,673 metres (12,051 feet)Inception
July 11th, 1889 and 1890IATA airport code
UYUUnited Nations Location Code
BO UYUOpen location code
57FMG5PG+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 795493613OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Uyuni” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أويوني”
- Asturian: “Uyuni”
- Aymara: “Uyuni”
- Bulgarian: “Уюни”
- Catalan: “Uyuni”
- Cebuano: “Uyuni”
- Chinese: “烏尤尼”
- Czech: “Uyuni”
- Dutch: “Uyuni”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اويونى”
- Finnish: “Uyuni”
- French: “Uyuni”
- German: “Uyuni”
- Gujarati: “ઉયૂની”
- Hebrew: “אויוני”
- Hindi: “उयूनी”
- Japanese: “ウユニ”
- Korean: “우유니”
- Lithuanian: “Ujūnis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uyuni”
- Norwegian: “Uyuni”
- Ossetian: “Уюни (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Уюни”
- Persian: “اویونی”
- Polish: “Uyuni”
- Portuguese: “Uyuni”
- Quechua: “Uyuni”
- Russian: “Уюни”
- Serbian: “Ujuni”
- Slovak: “Uyuni”
- Slovenian: “Uyuni”
- Spanish: “Uyuni”
- Swedish: “Uyuni”
- Turkish: “Uyuni”
- Ukrainian: “Уюні (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Уюні”
- Waray (Philippines): “Uyuni”
- “Uyuni”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Uyuni”. Photo: S23678, CC BY 3.0.