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Salt desert of Sirjan is a
salt field
A dry lake bed, also known as a playa, is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceeds recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkaline c ...
in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
that appears after arrival of a flood tide and evaporates. It is a huge field of
soluble salt
In chemistry, a salt is a chemical compound consisting of an ionic assembly of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, which results in a compound with no net electric charge. A common example is table salt, with positively ch ...
. It is one of the most beautiful and unique places in Iran.
The salt desert of
Sirjan
Sirjan ( fa, سيرجان, also Romanized as Sīrjān; formerly Sa‘īdābād) is a city and the capital of Sirjan County, Kerman Province,in the south of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population was 324,103 in 95,357 families. Sirjan ...
is located about 27 kilometers from the Sirjan to
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
road near
Kheirabad village. The field covers more than 35,000 hectares. Occasionally, rain turns it into a salt lake.
People go there in the middle of the month by the Lunar calendar to watch the full moon rise and celebrate the time.
The salt factory established near this place uses this salt to produce edible salt. This plain covered mainly by wind sediments in the form of sand hill that is seen evaporating sediments such as salt and land plaster. Vegetation in area is very poor because of high temperature evaporation and poor soil.
This area is polluted and damaged because of the waste and garbage of the near iron factory.
References
Landforms of Iran
Sirjan County
Landforms of Kerman Province
Salt flats
Tourist attractions in Kerman Province
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