Detailed Data

Lake Titicaca - Peru, Bolivia

Partner Living Lakes

TRÓPICO - Bolivian Association for the Conservation and

CEDAS - Centro de Desarrollo Ambiental y Social

2003

tectonic 

inter-glacial period of the Pleistocene 

Ramsar site (since 1998)

Reserva Nacional del Titicaca (since 1978)

8,400 sq. km [km²]

Major Lake (Lago Chucuito): 7,400 sq. km

Minor Lake (Lago Huinaymarca): 1,000 sq. km

Length

170 m 

284 m (Major Lake)

  41 m (Minor Lake)

107 m (Major Lake)

    9 m (Minor Lake)

3,812 m 

150,000 sq. km [km²] 

(TDPS - Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Coipasa basin)

27,

beneath 6 major tributaries: Ramis, Ilave, Coata, Huancana, Suchez and Katari

1 (Desaguadero River) 

fresh water (0.78 - 1.2 g/l) 

880 mm

Major Lake: 889 mm

Minor Lake: 829 mm

9.0 °C 

none 

Bolivia, Peru 

83.7 % natural landscape

  5.2 % agricultural land

11.1 % others

Aquatic plants

12 varieties, including:

Reed Plant  / Cattail (Schoenplectus totora)

Whitestem Pondweed (Elodea potamogeton)

Duckweed (Lemma sp.)

Muskgrass (Chara sp.)

95 species of resident and migratory birds, including:

Zambullidor del Titicaca (Centropelma micropterum)

Puna Ibis (Plegadis ridgwayi)

Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus)

Heron (Phleocryptes melanops)

resident families:

ducks (Anatidae)

rails (Rallidae)

migratory families:

Plovers (Charadriidae)

Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

Flamingos (Phoenicopte - ridae)

threatened species:

Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus cilensis)

Puna Flamingo (Phoenicopterus janesi)

Andean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus andinus)

Vizcacha (Lagidium peruanum)

Wild Guinea Pig (Cavia Ischudii)

Andean Wild Wolf (Pseudalopex culpaeus)

18 native species:

Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus), endemic

Aquatic Frog (Telmatobius ssp.)

Common Frog (Bufo spinulosus)

2 million

untreatened waste water from households, industries, mining and hotels