Salar de Tara
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| The wetlands of the Salar de Tara are an important habitat for flamingos. | ||
| Geographical location | Atacama Desert , Chile | |
| Tributaries | Río Zapaleri, Estero Cueva Blanca, Quebrada Chacaliri, Vertiente Lago Tara N ° 1, Vertiente Tara N ° 2, Aguada Socol, Vertiente en Río Blanco. | |
| Drain | none, evaporation rate 1500 mm / a |
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| Location close to the shore | San Pedro de Atacama | |
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 4310 m | |
| surface | 48 km², of which 17.3–26.4 km² open water areas | |
| volume | Water: 10.3-15.2 x 10 6 m³ salt: ns . A. |
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| PH value | Water: pH 7.8 | |
| Catchment area | 1814 km² | |
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particularities |
Salinity of the water 0.3–176 g / l |
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The Salar de Tara is a geomorphological salt pan in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile . It is embedded in the high Puna , around 120 km east of San Pedro de Atacama .
The salar is the sink of a 1814 km² large, drainless water catchment area, 54% of which is in Chile, 22% in Bolivia and 24% in Argentina. The most important tributary is the Río Zalaperi, which, coming from the north, first flows through Bolivia and Argentina. The river brings 600 l / s of very good quality water. A project to lead this water for irrigation purposes in a canal to the Ayllus of San Pedro de Atacama was postponed for cost reasons.
The 48 km² large salar has open water areas with a total area varying from 17.3 to 26.4 km². Together with the Salar de Aguas Calientes I , which is 15 km away , it is designated as a Ramsar protected area. The attraction of the wetlands are numerous flamingos. The salar and its surroundings formed by volcanism and erosion attract several thousand tourists every year.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hans Niemeyer Fernández: Hoyas hidrográficas de Chile . Segunda Region. Ed .: Ministerio de Obras Públicas. Dirección General de Aguas. Santiago de Chile 1980 ( dga.cl [PDF; 3.8 MB ; accessed on April 27, 2013]).
- ^ A b c François Risacher, Hugo Alonso, Carlos Salazar: Geoquímica de aguas en cuencas cerradas. I, II y III Regiones de Chile . tape 1 . Santiago de Chile January 1999 ( dga.cl [PDF; 1,4 MB ; accessed on May 8, 2013]).
- ↑ a b Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: Levantamiento hidrogeológico para el desarrollo de nuevas fuentes de agua en áreas prioritarias de la zona Norte de Chile, Regiones XV, I, II, y III. Hidrografía regional del Altiplano de Chile . Ed .: Ministerio de Obras Públicas. Dirección General de Aguas. Santiago de Chile December 2008 ( dga.cl [PDF; 9.8 MB ; accessed on May 5, 2013]).
- ^ A b Mathias Vuille, Michael F. Baumgartner: Hydrologic Investigations in the North Chilenean Altiplano using Landsat - MSS and - MT Data . In: Geocarto International . tape 8 , no. 3 , 1993, OCLC 729002889 , pp. 35–45 ( atmos.albany.edu [PDF; 3.4 MB ; accessed on April 27, 2013]).
- ↑ Constanza Marcela Jiménez Riveros: Estudio de cuencas altiplánicas endorreicas de la Segunda Región de Chile . Caracterización, tipología y potencialidades de uso. In: Memoria para optar al Título de Geógrafo . Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. Escuela de Geografía, Santiago de Chile 2012 ( tesis.uchile.cl [PDF; accessed April 27, 2013]). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Juan Pablo Contreras: Norte de Chile: conservación de humedales altoandinos para un desarrollo productivo sustentable . In: Revista Ambiente y Desarrollo . tape XVIII , no. 2-3-4 , 2002, pp. 125-131 ( cipma.cl [PDF; 56 kB ; accessed on May 8, 2013]). cipma.cl ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
