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Poopó Municipality
Poopó Municipality is the first Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Poopó. Geography The municipality lies east of the Desaguadero River (Bolivia), Desaguadero River where it connects Uru Uru Lake and Poopó Lake. Some of the highest mountains of the municipality are listed below:BIGM map 1:50,000 Huanuni 6239-III Subdivision The municipality is divided into three Cantons of Bolivia, cantons. *Coripata Canton *Poopó Canton *Venta y Media Canton Languages The languages spoken in the Poopó Municipality are mainly Spanish language, Spanish, Quechua languages, Quechua and Aymara language, Aymara . References obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo External links Municipalities of Oruro Department {{Oruro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Poopó
Lake Poopó ( ) was a large saline lake in a shallow depression in the Altiplano in Oruro Department, Bolivia, at an altitude of approximately . Due to the lake's length and width (), it made up the eastern half of Oruro, known as a mining region in southwest Bolivia. The permanent part of the lake body covered approximately and it was the second-largest lake in the country. The lake received most of its water from the Desaguadero River, which flows from Lake Titicaca at the north end of the Altiplano. Since the lake lacked any major outlet and had a mean depth of less than , the surface area differed greatly seasonally. In 2002, the lake was designated as a site for conservation under the Ramsar Convention. By December 2015, the lake had completely dried up, leaving only a few marshy areas. Despite the lake rebounding from two previous recorded drying instances, as of 2016, the lake's recovery is considered unlikely. Suggested causes of the decline are the melting of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poopó Lake
Poopó may refer to: * Lake Poopó Lake Poopó ( ) was a large saline lake in a shallow depression in the Altiplano in Oruro Department, Bolivia, at an altitude of approximately . Due to the lake's length and width (), it made up the eastern half of Oruro, known as a mining r ..., Oruro, Bolivia * Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia * Poopó Municipality, Oruro, Bolivia See also * Poo poo (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran languages, Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guarani language, Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish language, Spanish and Quechua language, Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a Minority language, recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua languages, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal feature (linguistics), areal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua Languages
Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" language, it is today the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with the number of speakers estimated at 8–10 million speakers in 2004,Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. and just under 7 million from the most recent census data available up to 2011. Approximately 13.9% (3.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechua language. Although Quechua began expanding many centuries before the Incas, that previous expansion also meant that it was the primary language family within the Inca Empire. The Spanish also tolerated its use until the Peruvian struggle for independence in the 1780s. As a result, various Quechua languages are still widely spoken today, being co-official in many regions and the most spoken language in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries, as well as one of the Official languages of the United Nations, six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wila Ch'ankha
Wila Ch'ankha ( Aymara ''wila'' red, ''ch'ankha'' wool cord, "red cord", Hispanicized spelling ''Wila Chanca'') is a mountain located in the Andes in Bolivia. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Poopó Province, Poopó Municipality, Poopó Canton, near the Desaguadero River and northeast of Poopó Lake Poopó may refer to: * Lake Poopó Lake Poopó ( ) was a large saline lake in a shallow depression in the Altiplano in Oruro Department, Bolivia, at an altitude of approximately . Due to the lake's length and width (), it made up the easter .... Detailed map of the area The town of Poopó lies at the foot of the mountain, north of it. References Mountains of Oruro Departme ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallatiri (Poopó)
Wallatiri ( Aymara ''wallata'' snow ball, snow lump; Andean goose, ''-(i)ri'' a suffix, translated as "abundance of Andean geese" or "habitat of the Andean geese", hispanicized spelling ''Huallatiri'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia, about high. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Poopó Province, Poopó Municipality Poopó Municipality is the first Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Poopó. Geography The municipality lies east of the Desaguadero River (Bolivia), Desaguadero R .... Wallatiri lies south of Qala Pirqata. References Mountains of Oruro Department Four-thousanders of the Andes {{Oruro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pukara (Poopó)
Pukara ( Aymara and Quechua for fortress, Hispanicized spelling ''Pucara'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Poopó Province, Poopó Municipality Poopó Municipality is the first Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Poopó. Geography The municipality lies east of the Desaguadero River (Bolivia), Desaguadero R .... References Mountains of Oruro Department Four-thousanders of the Andes {{Oruro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuqi Nasa
Chuqi Nasa ( Aymara ''chuqi'' gold, ''nasa'' nose, "gold nose", Hispanicized spellings ''Choque Nasa, Choquenasa'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia, about high. It is located in the Oruro Department, Poopó Province, Poopó Municipality Poopó Municipality is the first Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Poopó Province in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Poopó. Geography The municipality lies east of the Desaguadero River (Bolivia), Desaguadero R .... References Mountains of Oruro Department Four-thousanders of the Andes {{Oruro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uru Uru Lake
__NOTOC__ Uru Uru Lake is a lake in the Oruro Department in Bolivia. It is fed by the Desaguadero River and the Jach'a Jawira. It is situated at an elevation of 3,686 m, its surface area is 214 km2. The lake is formed by the flow of the Desaguadero River at its mouth into Lake Poopó, over the extensive sedimentation known as "Santo Tomás" from the small hermitage found there that was completely inundated. The formation dates to 1962. The river connects Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopó. Ecology The lake used to be a tourist attraction for boating and fishing, as it contained a large number of fish. During a long drought in 2016, the lake lost almost all of its water. This was described by local media and experts as an environmental catastrophe caused by several factors, including climate change and the use of water for mining. , a large part of the lake is covered by trash. Much of it is plastic from nearby Oruro where residents dump their refuse. There is also contaminati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desaguadero River (Bolivia)
The Desaguadero River, also known as Risawariru or Uchusumain, is a river shared between Bolivia and Peru. It drains Lake Titicaca from the southern part of the river basin, flowing south and draining approximately five percent of the lake's flood waters into Lake Uru Uru and Lake Poopó. Its source in the north is very near the Peruvian border. It is navigable only by small craft and supports indigenous communities such as the Uru Muratu community. See also * Awallamaya Lake * Desaguadero River (Argentina) from Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt .... Notes External links Management issues in the Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopo system: Importance of developing a water budget Rivers of Peru Rivers of La Paz Department (Bolivia) Rivers of Oruro Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
