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Showing posts with label Peru 24. Show all posts

Peru - Lake Titicaca

"Lake Titicaca is the largest freshwater lake in South America and the highest of the world's large lakes. Titicaca is one of less than twenty ancient lakes on earth, and is thought to be there million years old. Lake Titicaca sits 3 810 m above sea level and is situated between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Peruvian part is located in Puno department, in Puno and Huancane provinces. It covers 3 200 square miles (8 300 square km) and extends in a northwest-to-southeast direction for a distance of 120 miles (190 km). It is 50 miles (80 km) across at its widest point. A narrow strait, Tiquina, separates the lake into two bodies of water. The smaller, in the southeast, is called Lake Huinaymarca in Bolivia and lake Pequeño in Peru..." Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List

Lago Titicaca, Peru. Thanks to Jane of UK for mailing this wonderful postcard from Peru.





Peru - Historic Center of the City of Trujillo

A colorful and cheerful postcard showing different facades of colonial buildings in Peru. Nice stamps of spider and fish. Thanks so much to Nancy who was visiting Peru. Muchos gracias.