Lake Salinas is a salt lake in the
Arequipa Region
Arequipa () is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated dep ...
in
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
. It is situated in the
Arequipa Province,
Tarucani District.
[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the ''Arequipa Sur'' (Arequipa Region)]
See also
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List of lakes in Peru
The following is a list of lakes in Peru.Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica e Informática (INEI)"Compendio Estadistica 2007" page 26 Many of the names have the ending -cocha, from Quechua ''qucha'': lake.
* Acucocha
* Alcacocha
* Arapa
* Ar ...
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Pichu Pichu
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Tacune
Tacune (possibly from Aymara language, Aymara ''taku'' ''Prosopis'' (genus of South American tree) / colored medicinal earth, ''-ni'' a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with the ''taku'' tree" or "the one with medicinal earth") is a mountai ...
References
*INEI, Compendio Estadistica 2007, page 26
Salt flats
Salinas
Salinas
Ramsar sites in Peru
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