Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Salt mounds, Salar de Uyuni

 
Salt mounds, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Reason
Excellent composition, great technical quality under hard conditions, highly encyclopedic since it's used in three articles, plus it's evocative of Richard Misrach's desert cantos. Proposed extended caption:

Salt mounds in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, ca. 25 times as large as the Bonneville Salt Flats. It's the remnant of a prehistoric lake surrounded by mountains without drainage outlets. Salt is harvested in the traditional method: the salt is scraped into small mounds for water evaporation and easier transportation, dried over fire, and finally enriched with iodine.</blockquote.>

Articles this image appears in
Sodium chloride, Salar de Uyuni, Edible salt
Creator
Lucag on Commons

Promoted Image:Piles of Salt Salar de Uyuni Bolivia Luca Galuzzi 2006 a.jpg --Terence 04:20, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]