The fantastic Lake Titicaca
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Lake Titicaca is the world’s highest commercially navigable lake and also South America’s biggest lake. It borders Bolivia and Peru on a big distance and lies at 3200 meters above the sea level.
Aerial view of the Lake Titicaca
The Lake Titicaca is an operation base for the Bolivian Navy, an otherwise landlocked country. But the lake is so big and so deep, that facilitates exercises of the Navy. It takes the water from the Andean melting glaciers and from 10 little rivers going down onto the lake. The Lake Titicaca is fast closed, as 90 % of its extra water simply vanishes through the strong evaporation. The lake consists actually from two lakes, The Big Lake and the Small Lake ( or Lago Grande and Lago Pequeno, as the spanish say!), which are united through a very narrow isthmus.
The city of Copacabana on the Bolivian shore
