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The geography and climate of Bolivia has led to the formation a wide variety of lakes, from salt saturated lakes in the Altiplano to oxbow lakes in the eastern lowlands. Many of Bolivias lakes are formed only seasonally during the austral summer and remains for the rest of the year as salt flats in the altiplano or swamps in the eastern lowlands.
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The lake has 41 islands, some of which are densely populated. Having only a single season of free circulation, the lake is monomictic, [12] [13] and water passes through Lago Huiñaimarca and flows out the single outlet at the Río Desaguadero, [14] which then flows south through Bolivia to Lake Poopó.
The two lakes today are only connected by a single channel and their properties are quite different. [3] The lake is seldom ice-covered, water temperatures range between 13–20 °C (55–68 °F). Air temperatures range between 10 – −30 °C (50 – −22 °F), and UV radiation is 40% higher than at sea level. [ 3 ]
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Bolivia: Surface area: 6.7 km 2 (2.6 sq mi) Surface elevation: 3,638 m (11,936 ft) Laguna Grande is a lake in the Tarija ...
Lake Tauca is a former lake in the Altiplano of Bolivia.It is also known as Lake Pocoyu for its constituent lakes: Lake Poopó, Salar de Coipasa and Salar de Uyuni.The lake covered large parts of the southern Altiplano between the Eastern Cordillera and the Western Cordillera, covering an estimated 48,000 to 80,000 square kilometres (19,000 to 31,000 sq mi) of the basins of present-day Lake ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Lakes of Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)" The following 21 pages are in this ...