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Lake
Titicaca
Lake Titicaca, located in the northern part of the
Bolivian Altiplano, is shared more or less equally between
Bolivia and Peru. The lake, the size of Crete, or Delaware
and Rhode Island put together, is one of Bolivia's geographical
wonders. Among its vast beds of totora reeds live countless
water-birds, and Aymara Indians farm on the shores. Twice
in ancient times inland seas covered much of the Altiplano.
Since then the water has receded to form Lake Titicaca,
whose height above sea level is between 3806 and 3812
metres. There are many tributaries that feed the lake
most of them flowing down out of the Peruvian Andes, but
there is only one outlet - the Rio Desaguadero, which
the Kota Mama team sailed down during the first phase
of the expedition.
Despite the bleakness of the Altiplano the land around
Titicaca has from Tiwanaku through Inca and Spanish times
been relatively densely populated. Today some 700,000
people live around a 150 square kilometre area. |
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