Salt Flats

Connected Sites: 10

WHS containing Salt Flats ("a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water").

Connected Sites

Namib Sand Sea

Namibia

Inscribed: 2013

4.08

113

4

Sossusvlei
'Uruq Bani Ma'arid

Saudi Arabia

Inscribed: 2023

2.59

10

1

"sebkha (salt flats)" (AB ev)
Peninsula Valdes

Argentina

Inscribed: 1999

3.55

57

10

"An interesting basin (42 meters below sea level) contains two salt flats, "Salinas Chica", 12 km2 in area, and "Salinas Grande", 35 km2".
Sangha Trinational

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic)

Inscribed: 2012

3.61

6

2

Dzanga Bai is a sandy salt lick that measures 250 m (820 ft) by 500 m (wiki)
Ibiza

Spain

Inscribed: 1999

2.77

127

5

Salinas de Ibiza y Formentera
Wood Buffalo National Park

Canada

Inscribed: 1983

2.82

12

4

Grosbeak Lake Salt Flats "Wood Buffalo also includes salt flats unique in Canada. This strange spectacle is created as spring water brings disolved salt to the surface, covering large areas and creating pans and mounds up to 2 meters high"
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley

Mexico

Inscribed: 2018

3.00

43

5

Zapotitlan Salinas
Shark Bay

Australia

Inscribed: 1991

3.58

40

2

The inland terrestrial landscape of Shark Bay is predominantly one of low rolling hills interspersed with birridas (inland saltpans that are at sea-level)
Lut Desert

Iran

Inscribed: 2016

3.40

25

3

Various salt features are found over about 4% of the nominated area, especially in the playa of Shurgaz-e Hamun (AB ev)
Uvs Nuur Basin

Mongolia, Russia

Inscribed: 2003

2.69

8

0

Torkhiologiin-Gol delta consists of desert and salt flats (UNEP-WCMC)