COIPASA Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

salar of Coipasa 3600m
on back ground, the tata sabaya volcano (5430m)
all the hills in front are made in dead coral
this is the old bottom of the ocean

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richiegimmel (258) 2008-07-01 17:31

Very sharp image you have here. The wide angle and the fading mountains give the scene a real sense of depth and it pulls my eye in. A bit less sky or a horizontal frame might be worth a try.

cyrrhus (2878) 2009-01-04 6:26

... not really the bottom of the ocean... but simply a dried lake that was almost 80000km² in size about 10000 years ago.
The former shoreline is visible as a calcareous crust on most volcanic hills... but these are by now way dead coral.
merci pour cette rare image de Coipasa. Je ne suis pas sur de reconnaitre le lieu exact (du cote de Hizo ?)
Eric /.