Lake Titicaca

Syllabus: World Geography

Context

Dipping water levels

About the Lake

In the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Peru.
Highest of the world’s large lakes, world’s highest navigable sea and largest in South America after Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo

Issues

Within 25 cm of their all-time low record in 1996
Low water levels mean fish that ordinarily spawn near shore are now unable
The result of climate change – The rainfall and the inflow to the lake from Peruvian rivers were not sufficient – heavily polluted by waste from the city of El Alto – indiscriminate fishing has decimated species