Wiñaymarka Lake

Wiñaymarka Lake is the southern branch of in and . The lake is hypothesised to have dried up during the Middle Formative Period as a result of a long-term drop in precipitation in the Altiplano from 400 to 200 BCE.
  • Lake
  • …has a surface elevation of 3,810 metres (12,500 feet)
  • Description: southern branch of Lake Titicaca
  • Also known as
    “Huañamarca”
    “Lago de Uiñaimarca”
    “Lago Uiñaimarca”
    “Laguna de Uinamarca”
    “Laguna Huinaimarca”
    “Lake Uinaimarca”
    “Lake Uinamarca”
    “Winamarca”
    “Winaymarca”
    “Wuiñaimarca”
  • Category: body of water
  • Location
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Latitude
-16.33333° or 16° 20′ south
Longitude
-68.91667° or 68° 55′ west
Open location code
57MHM38M+M8
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wiñaymarka Lake” goes by many names.
Lago de HuiñaymarcaCebuano
維尼亞馬爾卡湖Chinese
WiñaymarkaDutch
بحيره وينايماركاEgyptian Arabic
ვინიაიმარკაGeorgian
ウィニャイマルカ湖Japanese
위냐이마르카호Korean
Tasik HuinaymarcaMalay
ვინიაიმარკაMingrelian
Wiñamarka quchaQuechua
Wiñaymarka quchaQuechua
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