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Salar de Uyuni

Oruro DepartmentBolivia

Grid Point Code for Salar de Uyuni
With a code
#CC6KC-G4346
Said aloud
Salar de Uyuni G4346

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Salar de Uyuni is #CC6KC-G4346. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.21 m east to west, centred on 20°20'00.03"S, 67°42'00.05"W, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
Salt flat in Bolivia
Code
#CC6KC-G4346
With a check character
#CC6KC-G4346*P
Short form
G4346
Cell centre
-20.333341, -67.700014
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.21 m
Region
Oruro Department
Country
Bolivia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #CC6KC-G4346. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Oruro Department

Salar de Uyuni G4346: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 5.0 km east or west of Salar de Uyuni. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.

Copied by hand, or read over a phone

#CC6KC-G4346*P. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.

As a link or a square code

Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.

From the city to the door

The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 50.1 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.

  1. CC6KMetropolitan area40 km by 50.1 km
  2. CC6KCDistrict8 km by 10 km
  3. CC6KCGSuburb1.6 km by 2 km
  4. CC6KCG4A few streets320 m by 401 m
  5. CC6KCG43Building64 m by 80.2 m
  6. CC6KCG434Entrance12.8 m by 16 m
  7. CC6KCG4346Doorway2.56 m by 3.21 m

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