Titicaca
Alpine lake in Peru and Bolivia
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Summary
Titicaca is a lake[1]. Titicaca ranks in the top 0.11% of lake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,244 views/month, #6 of 5,436).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Puno Department[3], La Paz Department[4]
- Country: Peru[5], Bolivia[6]
- Instance of: monomictic lake[7], tourist attraction[8], mountain lake[9]
- Inflows: Suches River[10], Ramis River[11], Coata River[12], Huancané River[13], Ilave River[14]
- Outflows: yuca guasi[15], evaporation[16]
- Basin country: Bolivia[17], Peru[18]
- Commons category: Lake Titicaca[19]
- Has part(s): Puno Bay[20], Golfo de Achacachi[21]
- Topic's main category: Category:Lake Titicaca[22]
- Commons gallery: Lake Titicaca[23]
- Described by source: The New Student's Reference Work[24], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[25], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27]
- Heritage designation: Ramsar site[28], Tentative World Heritage Site[29]
- Length: 204 km[30]
- Elevation above sea level: 3812 m[31]
- Area: 8562 km²[32], 8372 km²[33]
- Width: 80 km[34]
- Watershed area: 56,270 km²[35]
- Volume as quantity: 893 cubic kilometre[36]
- Perimeter: 1125 km[37]
- Located in protected area: Titicaca National Reservation[38]
- Residence time of water: 1343 years[39]
- Vertical depth: 489 m[40]
- Drainage basin: Titicaca basin[41]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[42]
Why It Matters
Titicaca has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Titicaca is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]