Neither nation wants to see its salt lake go the way of Poopó. Bolivia's high plain, the Altiplano, unfurls like a leaf-shaped plateau wedged into an unusual place where South America’s Andes ...

including Lake Minchin, which once covered the area, started to evaporate. Over thousands of years, as these lakes dried up, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At a staggering 4,086 square miles, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the biggest salt flat in the world. During the rainy season, it essentially turns into a giant mirror.

Until we start sending commercial flights to the moon, the Kachi Lodge on Bolivia ... of salt—an estimated 10 billion metric tons of it—which was left behind as an ancient lake dried up.

FUKUTSU, Fukuoka Prefecture--This coastal city is trying to woo tourists in Japan and beyond by pitching its version of Bolivia's world-famous Uyuni Salt Flats. Fukutsu’s “sea mirror ...