The ecology of Lake Titicaca may not get as much attention as that of the neighboring Amazon rainforest but certainly deserves recognition. More than aquatic species can be found in Lake Titicaca, as well as many species of water birds. Threatened species than can be found here include the enormous Titicaca water frog and the Titicaca grebe. More than 25 rivers and many glaciers empty into Lake Titicaca, but only one drains from it.
Before the Inca civilization, three other peoples resided at Lake Titicaca and left their marks on the culture: the Pukara, Tiwanaku, and Collas. The Uros people, descendants of a much more ancient culture, continue to live on Lake Titicaca on floating islands.
These islands, along with their homes and boats, are made entirely of reeds that grow along the shore of the water. Their economy relies upon tourism and fishing. Locals also keep herds of alpacas, llamas, sheep, and cows. While Rainforest Cruises aim to provide accurate and up-to-date information, we make no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information herein or found by following any link on this site.
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El Mapi. Hotel Monasterio. A narrow strait, Tiquina, separates the lake into two bodies of water. Lake Titicaca lies between Andean ranges in a vast basin about 22 square miles - 58 square km in area that comprises most of the Altiplano High Plateau of the northern Andes. In the snow-covered Cordillera Real on the north-eastern Bolivian shore of the lake, some of the highest peaks in the Andes rise to heights of more than 21 feet 6 m.
Titicaca's level fluctuates seasonally and over a cycle of years. During the rainy season summer, from December to March the level of the lake rises, normally to recede during the dry winter months. The average level is 3. Titicaca's waters are limpid and only slightly brackish, with salinity ranging from 5.
Analyses show measurable quantities of sodium chloride, sodium sulphate, calcium sulphate, and magnesium sulphate in the water. The lake averages between and feet and m in depth, but the bottom tilts sharply toward the Bolivian shore, reaching its greatest recorded depth of feet m off Isla Soto in the lake's northeast corner. More that 25 rivers empty their waters into Titicaca; the largest, the Ramis, draining about two-fifths of the entire Titicaca Basin, enters the north-western corner of the lake.
One small river, the Desaguadero, drains the lake at its southern end. This single outlet empties only 5 percent of the lake's excess water; the rest is lost by evaporation under the fierce sun and strong winds of the dry Altiplano. There is evidence off the continuous presence of human population in the lake's area: the monumental remains and both tangible an intangible elements talk about different settings, the land-use and its management through specific and outstanding cultural manifestations.
This evidence shows the constant relation between man and nature since ancient days and during a long period of time that goes from the birth and development of Andean pre-Hispanic societies until our days. This long process that began approximately around 10 b. The other period comprises from Colonial times in the sixteenth century up to our days. All this process has defined a cultural area where tradition has been preserved showing the permanence of ways of life, of customs and ancestral values.
Hydrologists now know that the Desaguadero River right drains only 10 percent of the inflows, with most of the water lost about 90 percent because of evaporation caused by the persistent winds. Geologists have found evidence that the lake stretched hundreds of kilometers farther to the south in the past.
Lake Titicaca is believed to have been as much as kilometers miles long during glacial periods, likely the result of higher rainfall and lower temperatures. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 40 crew.
The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Caption by M.
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