Lake Titicaca

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).


Lake Titicaca at Sunrise from Puno
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Lake Titicaca at Sunrise from Puno

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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 it's 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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