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Lago Coipasa is a
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in
Sabaya Province
Sabaya (formerly ''Atahuallpa'') is a province in the west central section of the Bolivian Oruro Department. Its seat is the town of Sabaya.
Location
Sabaya Province is one of sixteen provinces forming Oruro Department. It is located between 18° ...
,
Oruro Department
Oruro (; Quechua: ''Uru Uru''; Aymara: ''Ururu'') is a department of Bolivia, with an area of . Its capital is the city of Oruro. According to the 2012 census, the Oruro department had a population of 494,178.
Provinces of Oruro
The depar ...
,
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
. At an elevation of 3657 m, its surface area is 806 km². It is located on the western part of
Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish language, Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechuan languages, Quechua and Aymara language, Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla people, Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extens ...
, 20 km north of
Salar de Uyuni
Salar de Uyuni (or "Salar de Tunupa") is the world's largest salt flat, or playa, at in area. It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes at an elevation of above sea level.
The Salar wa ...
and south of the main road linking
Oruro
Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level.
It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by populat ...
and
Huara
Huara is a Chilean town and Communes of Chile, commune in Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region. It is located or ( by road) northeast of Iquique. The village is crossed by the Pan-American Highway and is the crossing point for the road that goes ...
(Chile).
Lake Coipasa is a tectonic saline lake with a depth of 3.5 metres that is surrounded by the Salar de Coipasa ("Coipasa Salt Flats"), and dominated by the volcanic cone of the 4,920 m high
Wila Pukarani
Wila Pukarani (Aymara ''wila'' red or blood, ''pukara'' pucará (fortress) or mountain of protection, ''-ni'' Aymara suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a red ''pukara''", Hispanicized spellings ''Vila Pucarani'' / ''Villa Pucarani'') is a ...
.
Thousands of
flamingo
Flamingos or flamingoes () are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbe ...
s have settled on the shores of Lake Coipasa.
Gallery
Coipasa lake map of the shape and depth (bathymetry) 2020.jpg, Map of the shape and depth (bathymetry) of the Coipasa lake, 2020
Lago Uru Uru Chipaya 4.jpg, The lake
Poblacion Chipaya.jpg, The village of Chipaya, Oruro, Bolivia, near the lake
See also
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Chipaya
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Ouki
Ouki was an ancient lake in the Bolivian Altiplano. Its existence was postulated in 2006 by a group of scientists who had subdivided the Lake Minchin lake cycle into several lake phases. The Lake Minchin cycle had been previously identified in 1904 ...
References
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Lakes of Oruro Department
Salt flats of Bolivia
Saline lakes of South America
Endorheic lakes of South America
Landforms of Oruro Department