Salinas is a lake event in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia.
The existence of this lake event is documented by tufa mounds which are up to 7 metres (23 ft) high.
[1] It belongs to a series of ancient lakes which covered the southern Altiplano in Bolivia, reaching a maximum surface area of 33,000–60,000 square kilometres (13,000–23,000 sq mi).
These lake phases appear to occur in response to increased moisture supply from the Amazon.
[1] The Ouki and Salinas lake cycles coincided with cooling events in the North Atlantic,[4] glacier expansions in the Puna[5] and possibly the Cordillera Blanca,[6] and with changes to alluvial fans at Llano de Chajnantor.