Tourism and Productivity Dynamize Uyuni's economy

Since August 2012, Uyuni is connected to the departmental capital of Potosi through a modern paved road. More than 150,000 inhabitants in Agua de Castilla, Porco, Chaquilla, Pelca, Tica Tica, Ollerias and Pulacayo, among other neighboring populations close to the new highway, dedicated to the production of quinoa, raising camelids, mining, and tourism, benefit from an infrastructure that allows for a better communication with domestic and international markets.

With a loan for USD 75 million added to USD 33.2 million in local  contributions, CAF- development bank of Latin America. financed the construction of this tranche which is a part of the Bolivia-Chile Integration Corridor.

The construction of this new road seeks to revert the situation of poverty in the Southwestern area of Potosi, improve the trade flows of agricultural  products, and other goods and services by connecting the departments of Cochabamba, Oruro and Chuquisac, and consolidate the International Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile Corridor.

Uyuni is the entry gate to the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt reservoir in the planet, which has nine million tons of lithium.

CAF, development bank of Latin America, complemented the construction of this new road with social and environmental projects such as the generation of alternatives for the management of solid residues, and the recovery, management, and conservation of wetlands, which are essential for the conservation of the region's flora and fauna, as well as for the maintenance of camelids and the production of quinoa, two productive spheres in which this area of the country stands out.