Lake Parinacochas (possibly from Aymara ''parina'' flamingo, Quechua ''qucha'' lake, lagoon,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary): ''qucha'', ''qhucha, quchacha.'' - ''s. Laguna. Lago pequeño.'' ''qucha'', ''qhucha.'' - ''s. Lago. Gran masa de agua en una depresión.'' "flamingo lake") is a lake in

Ayacucho Region Ayacucho () is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path known as ...

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. It is located west of Sara Sara volcano at an elevation of above sea level. The lake is 12 km long and 9 km wide, and has a catchment area of . Lake Parinacochas is a shallow brackish lake, with some salt pan areas appearing at low water levels.

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The lake is located in a dry puna grassland region. Aquatic vegetation is represented by reeds of ''

Typha ''Typha'' is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush or reedmace, in American English as reed, cattail, or punks, in A ...

'' sp. and submerged plants of genus ''

Potamogeton ''Potamogeton'' is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae. Most are known by the common name pondweed, although many unrelated plants may be called pondweed, such as Canadian pondweed (''Elodea canadensis'' ...

''.

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Lakes of Peru Lakes of Ayacucho Region {{Peru-geo-stub

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