Uyuni Train Cemetery - Potosi

Recommendations

Getting to know the entire environment is an unforgettable activity since it has unique landscapes in the world., However, being at a high altitude between 3600 until 5000 mt tall, far from cities , with limited services and difficult roads, It is necessary to consider the following recommendations.

Due to the type of places, they must carry the following:

– Protector solar
– Small cut banknotes
– Sleeping bag
– Personal first aid kit
– sunglasses
– Long trouses
– Long sleeve t-shirts
– warm clothing
– Gloves
– Flashlight
– Lip cream
– Hand and face cream
– wool hat
– Sun cap
– Chalina
– hiking boots

Use.- Take care of your backpacks and always be attentive to anything.

Altitude 4000 – 5000 masl
Temperatura mine. -10 C – Max. 20 C

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Uyuni Train Cemetery – Potosi – Bolivia

Uyuni is a city in the municipality of the same name in southwestern Bolivia.. It is also the capital of the province of Antonio Quijarro, It has a population of 30,000 estimated inhabitants for the year 2012.1 and of 55.327 throughout the municipality. The city is served by the recently opened Joya Andina Airport. He 2016, will be part of the Dakar Rally route.

The origin of the name is somewhat obscure., some claim that it would originate from the Aymara voice “This one”, which implies a point of concentration, the termination “In” means place, so together the two words would be translated as “concentration place”, like the KantutaNi area of the city of La Paz, which means that before there were kantutas in that place, I mean, “Kantutas Place”. This is the most approximate version of the origin of the name.

The municipality of Uyuni in the province of Antonio Quijarro in the department of Potosí, Geographically, it is located between the meridians 66º 15' to 67º 15' of West Longitude and 19º 20' to 21º 00' of South Latitude.. The municipal seat, the city of Uyuni, It is located at 66º 52' West Longitude and 20º 18' South Latitude.

The territory of the municipality of Uyuni is located at an altitude that ranges between 3.665 y 5.000 masl.
Uyuni is the gateway to the Great Salar de Uyuni, to the Colored Lagoons, the Geysers, to the stone tree, “The Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna Reserve” and all the wonders of the southwest; On the outskirts of the city is the train cemetery where locomotives from the late 19th century are located.. It also has the Museum of the Southern Andes where objects from the southwestern region of Bolivia are exhibited. (remains of a Megatherium, Utensils and Moms of the Chullpas, etc).

The Railway Museum and Interpretation Center will soon be completed.

In the municipality of Uyuni, the physiographic characteristics of the Altiplano can be differentiated into the following three units:

The mountain ranges, which includes all the orographic formations of the Frailes mountain range, of which there are dismemberments in the form of foothills and isolated systems in the form of hills, in addition, They have rocky outcrops, These surfaces have a relief from abrupt to strongly inclined., sparse vegetation, the soils are shallow.

The colluvia, Originated by glaciation processes, they occur on the slopes of the mountain ranges., foothills, hills or other geological formations. They are characterized by having high slopes with slopes ranging between 25 and the 45 degrees, are found on the 3.750 and the 4.200 masl, The low slopes are located on hills with slopes less than 25 degrees and are between 3.700 and the 3.850 masl.

The floodplains, that have originated from the alluvial processes of the Quaternary period. In the region there are two river formations that are: the plains located as a high alluvial terrace that presents a flat to slightly undulating relief, sandy loam texture, deep to moderately deep soils, with incipient development of the soils; y, The low alluvial terraces formed in the endorheic basin of the Salar de Uyuni are areas with high salinity and unproductive from the point of view of vegetation..

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