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Lake Titicaca (/ t ɪ t ɪ ˈ k ɑː k ə /; [4] Spanish: Lago Titicaca [ˈlaɣo titiˈkaka]; Quechua: Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. Titicaca is the second largest lake in South America, both in terms of the volume ...
The Titicaca National Reservation is located in the Puno Region, Peru, in the Puno and Huancané provinces. Its main purpose is to preserve the ecosystems and landscapes of the Titicaca lake and surrounding Central Andean wet puna ecoregion .
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A 70-year-old man's feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there used to be the water of Lake Titicaca. The highest navigable lake in the world has receded to what Bolivian ...
Severe drought conditions and unusually high temperatures have caused the shoreline to shrivel at Titicaca, South America's largest lake and the world's highest navigable body of water. The water ...
Dymaxion world map with the 15 largest lakes roughly to scale. This is a pair of lists of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi), ranked by area, [1] [2] [3] excluding reservoirs and lagoons. The area of some lakes can vary considerably over time, either seasonally or from year to ...
Titicaca Peru, Bolivia. Puno Region (Peru) and La Paz Department (Bolivia) 8,372 km 2 (3,232 sq mi) 896 km 3 (215 cu mi) Fresh Ladoga Russia. Leningrad Oblast and Republic of Karelia: 17,700 km 2 (6,800 sq mi) 837 km 3 (201 cu mi) Fresh General Carrera-Buenos Aires [12] Chile, Argentina. General Carrera Province (Chile) and Santa Cruz Province ...
The move comes after Google said on Monday that Google Maps will change the name of the "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" for U.S. users once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic ...