With a salinity of 40%, Don Juan is the salty lake in the world, 18 times more salty than seawater and Dead Sea is only about 8 times more salty than normal seawater. Discovered in 1961 by two pilots, Lt. Don Roe and Lieutenant John Hickey, who called him and so, the lake covers an area of 100 m by 300 m, and it is so shallow that salt does not freeze even at – 30 degrees Celsius.




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