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Salar de Surire National Monument |
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| The Salar de Surire National Monument is situated at a height of 4,200 m above the sea level. The Salar de Surire National Monument houses huge salt deposits and vegetation that grows on high altitudes. The national monument expands for an area of 24,855 sq. acres. The Salar de Surire National Monument forms a home for a wide a variety of members from the plant as well as animal kingdom. Some its members are the Nandú, the Flamingos, the Andean avocets, the crested ducks as well as different types of llama, like the Vicuñas and Alpacas. The temperature fluctuates from -15ºC at nights to 5ºC during the days.
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Tourism in Chile became one of the major sources of its revenue from the turn of the 1990s. Tourism occupied a central position in its economy in places where the landscape was blessed with a rough and undulating terrain and hence many rare geographical features developed in these places. In 2005, tourism grew by leaps and bounds and contributed around 1,500 million dollars to Chile's economy. It has been estimated that almost 2 million people Chile annually. The major part of these tourists comes from the other countries of the American continent, mainly from Argentina, with Europe, Spain, Germany and France following closely.
The term Salar de Surire National Monument is derived from the word "suri" o ñandú, meaning a species of Ostrich that belong to Chile and are found here in large numbers. The national monument provides two sites for camping close to the Polloquere hot springs that are located at a distance of 16 km from the Conaf ranger station. However, the Salar de Surire National Monument does not provide facilities for accommodations to the visitors. If you intend to stay back, you may have to put up at the Conaf office, which can accommodate up to four persons.
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