Lago Coipasa or Salar de Coipasa is a lake in Sabaya Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia. At an elevation of 3657 m, its surface area is 806 km². It is on the western part of Altiplano, 20 km north of Salar de Uyuni and south of the main road linking Oruro and Huara (Chile).[1]
Lake Coipasa is a tectonic[clarification needed] saline lake with a depth of 3.5 metres that is surrounded by the Coipasa salt flat (Salar de Coipasa), and the volcanic cone of the 4,920 m high Wila Pukarani.
Thousands of flamingos have settled on the shores of Lake Coipasa.
Coipasa Lake
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Lago Coipasa or Salar de Coipasa is a lake in Sabaya Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia. At an elevation of 3657 m, its surface area is 806 km². It is...
Coipasa is a rural municipality in Sabaya Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia. It is surrounded by CoipasaLake on three directions, and has an average...
the Arica and Parinacota Region, crosses the Andes and empties into CoipasaLake in Bolivia. The upper reach of the river lies within the boundaries of...
Lake Titicaca (/tɪtɪˈkɑːkə/; Spanish: Lago Titicaca [ˈlaɣo titiˈkaka]; Quechua: Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the...
prehistoric lake was Coipasa, which was radiocarbon dated to 11,500 to 13,400 years ago. When it dried, it left behind two modern lakes, Poopó and Uru...
Lake Tauca is a former lake in the Altiplano of Bolivia. It is also known as Lake Pocoyu for its constituent lakes: Lake Poopó, Salar de Coipasa and Salar...
large fluctuations in area like Poopó Lake that has dried up several times through history. The salt flats of Coipasa and Uyuni have only very small surfaces...
hemispheres Lake Mar Chiquita in Argentina. The Altiplano includes a number of closed basins such as the Salar de Coipasa, and Titicaca–Poopó system. Lake Valencia...
between 30 and 40 million of m³, which empty through Lauca River into CoipasaLake, in Bolivia. Although much of its present hummocky topography is related...
Desaguadero River, and great salt flats, including the Salar de Uyuni and CoipasaLake. The northeastern flank of the Cordillera Real is known as the Yungas...
shorelines at Lake Poopó, and it may have covered the Salar de Uyuni, the Salar de Coipasa and the Lake Poopó area, although the Uyuni and Coipasa basins may...
that slopes to Salar de Coipasa.: 31 The surrounding plain has an altitude of 3,830 metres (12,570 ft) and was covered by Lake Minchin during the Pleistocene...
the lake finally drained to the Salar de Coipasa, for reasons unknown although it is possible that the Rio Cancosa at that point breached the lake basin...
Bolivia. Salar de Uyuni, locally known as Salar de Tunupa, and Salar de Coipasa are two large dry salt flats formed after the Altiplano paleolakes dried...
the Pleistocene. After they dried up, the Salar de Uyuni and Salar de Coipasa were left behind. Pastos Grandes Chullunkhäni Ch'iyar Quta Warren, John...
the largest salares are Coipasa, Uyuni, Atacama, and Arizaro. Other major geographical features are the lakes Poopó and Coipasa, and the many volcanoes...
older; later additional lake cycles were recognized. The minor ones include Inca Huasi, Salinas and Coipasa. The major ones include Lake Tauca and Ouki. Because...
years before present. Debris from the collapse entered a lake that covered the Salar de Coipasa at that time and formed a deposit with a volume of 6 ± 1...
south-eastern Qullasuyu located in the lake system of the Department of Oruro between the basins of the lakes Poopó and Coipasa, where the Uru civilization had...
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