Gulf of Taraco
The Gulf of Taraco is a bay in Lake Titicaca in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
The Gulf of Taraco (Spanish: Golfo de Taraco or Bahia de Taraco ) is located in the southern part of the lake, Wiñaymarka , and is named after the Taraco Peninsula , which borders it to the northeast. The bay has an extension of 13 kilometers in north-south and 28 kilometers in east-west.
The western part of the Gulf of Taraco belongs to Peru , the eastern part to Bolivia .
At the border of the two countries near Desaguadero , the Río Desaguadero is the only outlet that leaves Lake Titicaca in a southerly direction. Various rivers flow into the Gulf, of which the Río Tiwanaku is the largest on the Bolivian side . The only larger towns on the Gulf of Taraco are, besides Desaguadero, on the Bolivian side, Guaqui and Puerto Guaqui .
Web links
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250: 000 (PDF; 11.3 MB)
- Relief map of the Puerto Guaqui region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 8.3 MB)
- Relief map of the Desaguadero region 1: 100,000 (PDF; 5.7 MB)
- Lake Titicaca
Coordinates: 16 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ W.