Isla de la Luna
| Isla de la Luna | ||
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| Waters | Lake Titicaca | |
| Geographical location | 16 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ S , 69 ° 4 ′ 18 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.8 km | |
| width | 760 m | |
| surface | 2.1 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 3925 m above sea level NN | |
The Isla de la Luna (German moon island , also Isla Koati ; Quechua Killawat'a ) is an island in the Bolivian part of Lake Titicaca .
The "moon island" belongs to the district of Copacabana in the province of Manco Kapac . It is 2.80 kilometers long, 0.76 kilometers wide, 4.1 kilometers from the mainland and 7 kilometers from the neighboring Isla del Sol ( sun island ). The highest point of the island is only 115 m above the water level of the lake, but 3,925 m above sea level (sea level).
The island's residents speak Quechua , Aymara, and Spanish .
During the 1940s the island acted as Bolivia's most important prison or concentration camp, after the coup against President Villarroel in 1946 several hundred insurgent farmers were interned here.
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- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Lago Titicaca, isla de la Luna, the escape del siglo
- ^ Fellenberg, Peter (1984): Character and stages of the Bolivian revolution 1952 to 1955/56. Dissertation. Karl Marx University Leipzig. P. 27
