29 000 inhabitants. Altitude: 3,660 m. Uyuni has become the sacred meeting place of those who have been bewitched by the Salar and the desert of South Luz. Uyuni is a strange city, created in the middle of nowhere by the president Aniceto Arce, a little more than a century ago. Shareholder of the Compania Minera Huanchaca, with Chilean and Bolivian capital, he wanted to provide this part of Bolivia with a railroad crossroads from where the trains would leave for Chile and Argentina. Welcome in the icy Far West of Bolivia...

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Vue générale d'Uyuni. Thierry Lauzun - Iconotec
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