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Ilave River or Río Ilave is a stream [1] [2] in Peru, located in the Puno Region, [3] on the Titicaca slope. [4] [5] [6] It flows into Lake Titicaca. It has an elevation of 3,815 metres. Iiave River has a hydrographic basin that covers 7705 km 2. It has a length of 163 km. [7] Río Ilave is situated nearby the localities Jullani and Huayllata.
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 largest lake in South America, both in terms of the volume of ...
The Altiplano Basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Altiplano) is a sedimentary basin within the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. The basin is located on the Altiplano plateau between the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental. Over-all the basin has evolved through time in a context of horizontal shortening of Earth's crust. [1]
To thank the Kallawaya chief Ari Capac Iqui, the Incas created an Inca-Kallawaya province on the eastern bank of lake Titicaca. [11] After the Collas were conquered by the Inca Empire, most pukara forts were abandoned. [2] The Puquina-Qollas and the Uru-Qollas were expelled from the sacred Isla del Sol by Tupac Yupanqui, and sent to Lupaca ...
Jisk'a Iru Muqu is the first Archaic open-air site excavated in the Lake Titicaca Basin. Under the direction of Aldenderfer, a team from University of California, Santa Barbara , including Nathan Craig and Nicholas Tripcevich, conducted additional excavations at the site during the austral winters of 1999–2004.
The Titicaca orestias was last seen in 1939 and is almost certainly extinct. [13] O. pentlandii is from the same lake and it may have disappeared in its native form. [14] It was still regarded as "only" vulnerable by the IUCN in 2009, but in 2014 the species was regarded as critically endangered in a review of Lake Titicaca fish. [13]
The Ucayali River (Spanish: Río Ucayali, IPA: [ˈri.o wkaˈʝali]) is the main headstream of the Amazon River.It rises about 110 km (68 mi) north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city.
Sierra del Divisor National Park: Ucayali: 2019 vii, x (natural) [51] Huayllay National Sanctuary: Pasco: 2019 vii, viii (natural) [52] Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System form Peru (RNSIIPG) Lima: 2019 x (natural) [53] Landscape Reserve Sub Cuenca del Cotahuasi: Arequipa: 2019 vii, viii (natural) [54] The Coastal Lomas ...