Located in Bolivia’s Altiplano region, near the Chile border, Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s a surreal ...

Salar de Uyuni is not just a flat expanse; it is layered with salt up to ten meters thick in some places. Beneath this salty ...

Tycoon Isidro “Sid” Consunji stands casually on the sprawling Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world’s largest salt flat or playa, touted as one of South America’s most majestic vistas.

The Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest and most staggeringly beautiful salt flat, hides within the folds of the Bolivian Altiplano (or Andean Plateau) where the Andes Mountains are at their widest.

But will its people benefit? While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in ...