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The most prominent feature of the Altiplano is the large lake at its northern end, Lake Titicaca.At 3,811 m (12,503 ft) above sea level. 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.
Nevado Sajama (6,542 m or 21,463 ft), highest mountain in Bolivia; Illimani (6,438 m or 21,122 ft) Janq'u Uma (6,427 m or 21,086 ft) Illampu (6,368 m or 20,892 ft)
The women, ranging from age 42 to 50, have scaled five of the country's peaks after deciding to leave a life of cooking and porting to become mountaineers. Eleven Aymara indigenous women scale ...
Its elevation is 5,421 meters (17,785 ft). Chacaltaya's glacier — which was as old as 18,000 years — had an area of 0.22 km 2 (0.085 sq mi) in 1940, which had been reduced to 0.01 km 2 (0.0039 sq mi) in 2007 and was completely gone by 2009. [2] [3] [4] Half of the meltdown, as measured by volume, took place before 1980. [5]
Low elevation cities are often seaports or are close to the sea. The first country on the main list, Bolivia, is a country with multiple capitals; La Paz is the seat of the government while Sucre is the constitutional capital. The second list below contains several states with limited recognition.
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level based on the data published by Central Intelligence Agency, [1] unless another source is cited. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
An enlargeable map of Bolivia The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bolivia: Bolivia – landlocked sovereign country located in central South America .
Illimani has become a symbol of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Illimani was first attempted in 1877 by the French explorator Charles Wiener , J. de Grumkow, and J. C. Ocampo. They failed to reach the main summit, but did reach a southeastern subsummit, on 19 May 1877, Wiener named it the "Pic de Paris", and left a French flag on top of ...