Salar de Uyuni is the world's second-largest salt flat with an area of 10,582 km² (the largest being the Makgadikgadi salt flats). It is located in the department of Potosí, in south-western Bolivia at an altitude of 3,650 metres on Bolivia's Highlands, in the Andes near the city of Uyuni. Salar de Uyuni is also a major tourist attraction: three- to five-day trips by jeep are organised that include a hotel made entirely of salt. Several so-called islands, which are rocky points rising above the salt flats, are also visited. These include the centrally located Isla Incahuasi with an area of about 2 km² and the Isla del Pescado. Large cacti of the species Trichocereus pasacana grow there, the largest of which is as tall as 12 metres. Hummingbirds travel forty kilometres to come here to collect honey.
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