Lake Titicaca stands at 3810 meters above sea level and is the highest navigable lake in the entire world. Being 165km in length, 72km wide and its deepest point at 284m, this monstrous lake is a wonder to behold. Acting as a giant thermal regulator, the solar energy attained during the cloudless days is released during the evening and makes living in this inhospitable plateau possible. Straddling the Altiplano, a flat expanse of land between the Royal Mountains in Bolivia and the Peruvian Andes, the lake covers an astonishing 8560km squared and contains 896,000,000 cubic litres of water. The now fresh water lake was formed when the techtonic plate which runs from Alaska to Antartica and is responsible for the Andes and the Rockies first clashed into the landmass and trapped this huge expanse of water
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