Salar de Surire Natural Monument
- Salar de Surire Natural Monument
Infobox_Protected_area | name = Salar de Surire Natural Monument
iucn_category = III
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location = Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile
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lat_degrees = 18
lat_minutes = 51
lat_seconds = 0
lat_direction = S
long_degrees = 69
long_minutes = 0
long_seconds = 0
long_direction = W
area = 158.58 km²
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governing_body = Corporación Nacional Forestal
Salar de Surire Natural Monument is a Chilean Natural Monument located in the Andes, in the Arica and Parinacota Region. It consists mainly of a salt flat and a number of small salt lakes, sheltering several Andean species of wildlife and plants. Arintica volcano towers over the salt flat.
The protected area, along with Lauca National Park and Las Vicuñas National Reserve, were designated a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1981, which is called Lauca. [ [http://www2.unesco.org/mab/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?code=CHI+05&mode=all UNESCO] - Description at UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve] ]Salar de Surire is one of the Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention signed in 1971. [ [http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_chile.htm The Annotated Ramsar List: Chile] ] ]References
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