Lake Poopó
Lake Poopó was a large saline lake in a shallow depression in the Altiplano in Oruro Department, Bolivia, at an altitude of approximately 3,700 m. Due to the lake's length and width, it made up the eastern half of Oruro, known as a mining region in southwest Bolivia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: salt lake in Bolivia
- Also known as: “Lago de Poopó”, “Poopo”, “Poopo Lake”, and “Poopó Lake”
Lake Poopó
- Categories: salt lake, endorheic lake, and body of water
- Location: Oruro, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Poopó” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة بوبو”
- Armenian: “Պոոպո”
- Asturian: “Llagu Poopó”
- Aymara: “Pü Pü Quta”
- Azerbaijani: “Poopo gölü”
- Basque: “Poopo”
- Basque: “Poopó”
- Belarusian: “Паапо”
- Bengali: “পুপু হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Поопо”
- Catalan: “Llac Poopó”
- Cebuano: “Lago Poopó”
- Chinese: “Poopó Ô͘”
- Chinese: “普波湖”
- Chinese: “波波湖”
- Chuvash: “Поопо”
- Croatian: “Poopó”
- Czech: “Lago Poopó”
- Czech: “Poopó”
- Danish: “Poopósøen”
- Dutch: “Poopomeer”
- Dutch: “Poopómeer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Poopoo”
- Estonian: “Poopó järv”
- Estonian: “Poopo”
- Estonian: “Poopó”
- French: “Lac Poopo”
- French: “lac Poopó”
- French: “Lac Poopó”
- French: “Poopó”
- Galician: “Lago Poopó”
- Georgian: “პოოპო”
- German: “Poopo-See”
- German: “Poopó-See”
- Hebrew: “אגם פופו”
- Hungarian: “Poopó-tó”
- Hungarian: “Poopói-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Poopó”
- Italian: “lago Poopó”
- Italian: “Lago Poopó”
- Italian: “Poopo”
- Japanese: “ポーポー湖”
- Japanese: “ポーポ湖”
- Japanese: “ポオポ”
- Japanese: “ポオポ湖”
- Kazakh: “Поопо”
- Kirghiz: “Поопо”
- Korean: “포오포호”
- Latvian: “Poopo ezers”
- Latvian: “Poopó”
- Latvian: “Popo ezers”
- Latvian: “Puwpu”
- Lithuanian: “Poopas”
- Lithuanian: “Poopo ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Poopo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Poopó Ô͘”
- Mingrelian: “პოოპო”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poopósjøen”
- Norwegian: “Poopósjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Poopó”
- Persian: “دریاچه پوپو”
- Polish: “Poopó”
- Portuguese: “Lago Poopó”
- Portuguese: “Poopó”
- Quechua: “Puwpu qucha”
- Russian: “Ауллагас”
- Russian: “Поопо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poopó (jezero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poopó”
- Slovenian: “Poopó”
- Spanish: “Lago Poopo”
- Spanish: “Lago Poopó”
- Spanish: “Poopo”
- Spanish: “Poopó”
- Swedish: “Poopo”
- Swedish: “Pooposjön”
- Swedish: “Poopósjön”
- Tatar: “Püpü”
- Turkish: “Poopó Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Поопо”
- Uzbek: “Poopo”
- Venetian: “lago Poopó”
- Yue Chinese: “波波湖”
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