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Titicaca is the second largest lake in South America, both in terms of the volume of water and surface area. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ a ] It has a surface elevation of 3,812 m (12,507 ft). [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
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 year. This is especially true of salt lakes in arid climates.
The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area. The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior. The area given is the normal or average area of the lake. The area of some lakes fluctuates substantially.
Below are the reservoirs (artificial lakes) in the world with a surface area exceeding 500 km 2 (190 sq mi). Reservoirs can be formed conventionally, by damming the outlet of a canyon or valley to form a lake; the largest of this type is Ghana's Lake Volta, with a water surface of 8,500 km 2 (3,300 sq mi).
The waters of Lake Titicaca have for decades ebbed and flowed at an altitude of around 3,800 meters (12,500 ft) above sea level, which makes it even more vulnerable to evaporation by solar ...
With a surface area of 9,064 km 2 (3,500 sq mi), it is larger than Puerto Rico and is South America's second-largest lake by surface area. Lake Titicaca is also deep, about 370 m (1,214 ft) at its deepest, with an average depth of 215 m (705 ft); its volume of water is large enough to maintain a constant temperature of 10 °C (50 °F).
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Surface area Water volume Salinity Caspian Sea [3] Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran. Caspian endorheic basin: 371,000 km 2 (143,000 sq mi) 78,200 km 3 (18,800 cu mi) 1.2% Baikal [4] Russia. Southern Siberia: Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast: 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi) 23,610 km 3 (5,660 cu mi) Fresh Tanganyika