Laguna Colorada
Shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the lake named Pukaqucha or Laguna Colorada in the Puno Region, Peru, see Pukaqucha (Puno).
Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and close to the border with Chile.
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Laguna Colorada | |
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Location | Potosí, Bolivia |
Coordinates | 22°11′55″S 67°46′52″W |
Type | salt lake[1] |
Primary inflows | Rio Sulor[2] |
Basin countries | Bolivia |
Max. length | 10.7 km (6.6 mi) |
Max. width | 9.6 km (6.0 mi) |
Surface area | 60 km2 (23 sq mi) |
Average depth | 0.35 m (1 ft 2 in) |
Max. depth | 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) |
Shore length1 | 35 km (22 mi) |
Surface elevation | 4,278 m (14,035 ft) |
Islands | numerous, sometimes huge borax deposit islands[1] |
Official name | Los Lípez |
Designated | 27 June 1990 |
Reference no. | 489[3] |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
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