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Conical piles of edible salt near Colchani, drying while awaiting loading on a truck for transport to a processing plant in Uyuni. Members of a cooperative are paid 10 Bolivianos ($1.25) per ton to shovel wet salt for harvest.

The Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world (approximately 10,500 sq.km.), with 10 billion tons of edible salt, of which some 25,000 tons are extracted annually.

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Conical piles of edible salt near Colchani, drying while awaiting loading on a truck for transport to a processing plant in Uyuni. Members of a cooperative are paid 10 Bolivianos ($1.25) per ton to shovel wet salt for harvest.<br /> <br /> The Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world (approximately 10,500 sq.km.), with 10 billion tons of edible salt, of which some 25,000 tons are extracted annually.

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