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Lake Titicaca
Table of Contents: Culture and History / Islands / Get out / Bolivia / Peru More from Altiplano (Bolivia): Lake Titicaca More from Bolivia: Altiplano (Bolivia), Chaco (Bolivia), Cochabamba, Coroico, La Paz (department, Bolivia), Madidi National Park, Oruro, Rurrenabaque, Samaipata, Santa Cruz (department, Bolivia), Sorata, Sucre, Tiwanaku, Tropical Lowlands (Bolivia), Tupiza, Uyuni More from South America: Amazonia, Andes, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Los Roques, Pantanal, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay, Venezuela |
Lake Titicaca (Spanish: Lago Titicaca) is located on the border between northern Bolivia and southern Peru. It is considered the highest commercially navigable body of water in the world (3821m).
Understand
Covering some 8300 square kilometers, Lake Titicaca is the largest lake in South America, not counting Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, which is connected to the sea by a strait. The area of the lake is divided roughly evenly between Peru and Bolivia. Most of the Tiquina peninsula, which juts out from the Peruvian shore, also belongs to Bolivia.
Islands
- Isla del Sol
- Isla Amantani
- Isla Taquile - An island that has maintained its culture for several thousand years
- The floating Uros Islands - a bit touristy/artificial, but still interesting and worth stopping-off at if you are on your way to one of the other islands
Get out
Bolivia
Peru
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More from Altiplano (Bolivia): Lake Titicaca More from Bolivia: Altiplano (Bolivia), Chaco (Bolivia), Cochabamba, Coroico, La Paz (department, Bolivia), Madidi National Park, Oruro, Rurrenabaque, Samaipata, Santa Cruz (department, Bolivia), Sorata, Sucre, Tiwanaku, Tropical Lowlands (Bolivia), Tupiza, Uyuni More from South America: Amazonia, Andes, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Los Roques, Pantanal, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay, Venezuela |
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