**Figure 2.**

*Lagoon Environments around the World - A Scientific Perspective*

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**Figure 1.**

*(0.84 km<sup>2</sup>*

*Chaxa lagoon (0.37 km2*

*Hypersaline lagoons from contrasting latitudinal environments in Chile, the southern edge of the world. Atacama Desert: (A) Piedra and Céjar lagoons. (B) Los Flamencos National Reserve, from north to south:* 

*), Barros Negros lagoon (1.03 km2*

*), and Puilar* 

*), Canal Burro Muerto (0.1 km2*

*). Patagonia: (C) Amarga and (D) Cisnes lagoons.*

*Cisnes (left) and Amarga lagoons in the Chilean Patagonia, the former was declared a national monument to protect waterbird diversity. Both are unique hypersaline ecosystems in an area where freshwater lakes of glacier origin abound. Bacterial diversity and the brine shrimp Artemia persimilis coexist, a subsample of wild bacteria diversity represented in the Artemia-gut microbiota.*
