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Salar de Arizaro

Salar de Arizaro
A view of the Salar de Arizaro
Salar de Arizaro is located in Argentina
Salar de Arizaro
Salar de Arizaro
Location of Salar de Arizaro (blue) within
northwestern Argentina and South America
LocationArgentina
Coordinates24°43′22.8″S 67°44′16.8″W / 24.723000°S 67.738000°W / -24.723000; -67.738000
Basin countriesArgentina
Max. length100 km (62 mi)[1]
Max. width50 km (31 mi)[1]
Surface area1,600 km2 (618 sq mi)
Surface elevation3,460 m (11,352 ft)
IslandsCono de Arita
SettlementsTolar Grande
The dry lakebeds and yardangs in Salar de Arizaro, imaged by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite. In the upper left corner, small rounded bumps in the landscape are yardangs, dusty hills formed when soft rocks are weathered and abraded by winds. The yardangs are aligned precisely with the northwesterly winds. On the right, bulbous hills have sharps edges, a formation typical of salt weathering around the base. During salt weathering, rocks are eroded by repeated salt crystal growth. The eroded material has been blown away by the strong winds of the high desert, leaving the sharp edge.[2]

Salar de Arizaro ("Arizaro" comes from Atacameno haâri "crow", "condor" and ara, aro, "accommodation", "place where something is common".[3]) is a large salt flat of the Andes in north-western Argentina. It is located between the villages of Tolar Grande and Caipe and near Mina La Casualidad,[1] in Los Andes Department, Salta Province.

  1. ^ a b c (in Spanish) An article about the Salar de Arizaro Archived 2013-01-14 at archive.today
  2. ^ Salar de Arizaro at NASA Earth Observatory
  3. ^ Vaisse, Emilio F. (1 January 1895). "Glosario de la lengua atacameña". Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish): 533. doi:10.5354/anuc.v0i-.20911. ISSN 0717-8883.