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Papallacta, Ecuador on 16 October 2011 The volcano Antisana seen from the hot spring of Papallacta. Papallacta is a village at an altitude of 3,300 metres (10,827 feet) in Napo Province, Ecuador. [1] Its population is 635 as of 2022. [2]
Patallacta (possibly from Quechua pata elevated place / above, at the top / edge, bank (of a river), shore, llaqta place (village, town, city, country, nation), [1] "settlement on a platform" [2] pronounced "pahta-yakta"), Llactapata [3] or Q'ente Marka (possibly from Quechua q'inti hummingbird, marka village, "hummingbird village") is an archaeological site in Peru located in the Cusco Region ...
The following is a list of lakes in Chile.It consists of lakes of varying types and origins but the majority of the lakes (especially those in southern Chile) are glacial in origin.
Laguna Verde (Spanish for "green lake") [1] is a salt lake in an endorheic basin, in the southwestern Altiplano in Bolivia. It is located in the Sur Lípez Province of the Potosí Department. It is close to the Chilean border, at the foot of the volcano Licancabur. Laguna Verde seen from Licancabur View from the shore
Laguna Colorada is part of the Los Lípez (formerly Laguna Colorada) Ramsar wetland.It was listed as a "Ramsar Wetland of International Importance" in 1990.On, July 13, 2009, the site was expanded from 513.18 to 14,277.17 km 2 (5,512.45 sq mi) to include the surrounding high Andean endorheic, hypersaline and brackish lakes and associated wetlands (known as bofedales).
The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California" .
The lake has a surface of 1,850 km 2 (710 sq mi) of which 970 square kilometres (370 sq mi) are in the Chilean Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region, and 880 square kilometres (340 sq mi) in the Argentine Santa Cruz Province, making it the biggest lake in Chile, and the fourth largest in Argentina. In its western basin, Lake Gen ...
Laguna Lake is a shallow natural lake at the head of the Chileno Valley. It retains some water year round. [ 3 ] The 200 acres (81 ha) lake is 0.5 miles (1 km) wide and 2 miles (3 km) long, straddling the Sonoma - Marin county line in northern California , United States. [ 1 ]