South America
Peru
Ayacucho

Lake Parinacochas

Lake Parinacochas is a lake in Ayacucho Region in . It is located west of volcano at an elevation of 3,272 metres above sea level. The lake is 12 km long and 9 km wide, and has a catchment area of 606.5 square kilometres.
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  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: lake in the Ayacucho Region in Peru
  • Also known as: “Laguna de Parinacochas”

Lake Parinacochas

Latitude
-15.2917° or 15° 17′ 30″ south
Longitude
-73.6936° or 73° 41′ 37″ west
Elevation
3,274 metres (10,741 feet)
Open location code
57P8P854+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23847485
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Geo­Names ID
3932908
Wiki­data ID
Q5762473
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Parinacochas from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Lake Parinacochas” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “lago Parinacochas”
  • Cebuano: “Laguna Parinacochas (lanaw sa Ayacucho)”
  • Cebuano: “Laguna Parinacochas”
  • Chinese: “帕里納科查斯湖”
  • Georgian: “პარინაკუჩა”
  • German: “Laguna Parinacochas”
  • Lithuanian: “Parinakoča”
  • Lithuanian: “Parinakočia”
  • Lithuanian: “Parinakočios lagūna”
  • Quechua: “Inkawasi qucha”
  • Quechua: “Parihuanacocha”
  • Quechua: “Parihuanacochas”
  • Quechua: “Parinacocha”
  • Quechua: “Parinacochas”
  • Quechua: “Parinaqucha”
  • Quechua: “Pariwanaqucha”
  • Spanish: “Lago Parinacocha”
  • Spanish: “Lago Parinacochas”
  • Spanish: “Laguna Parinacocha”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Parinacochas”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Parinacochas”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.