The Laguna Tuyajto is an outflow-free salt lake , at 4040 m above sea level. M. in the north Chilean Altiplano of the Andes . The water level is a maximum of 2.7 km² with an average depth of 0.35 m. The lake gets its water from six springs in its vicinity, which are fed by rain and melt water from a 249 km² catchment area . The climate in this region is arid with low precipitation of 150 to 200 mm / a and a high potential evaporation of 1500 mm / a. The annual mean temperature there is 1 ° C.
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Christian Herrera, Emilio Custodio, Guillermo Chong, Luis Javier Lambán, Rodrigo Riquelme, Hans Wilke, Jorge Jódar, Javier Urrutia, Harry Urqueta, Álvaro Sarmiento, Carolina Gamboa, Elisabeth Lictevout: Groundwater flow in a closed basin with a saline shallow lake in a volcanic area: Laguna Tuyajto, northern Chilean Altiplano of the Andes . In: The Science of the Total Environment . tape541 , 2015, p.303-318 , doi : 10.1016 / j.scitotenv.2015.09.060 (English, online [accessed December 2, 2017]).
