Laguna de Aculeo
| Laguna de Aculeo | ||
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| Laguna de Aculeo in January 2009 | ||
| Geographical location | Chile | |
| Tributaries | Estero las Cabras | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 33 ° 50 '47 " S , 70 ° 54' 55" W | |
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| surface | 12 km² | |
| length | 5.5 km | |
| width | 2 km | |
| Maximum depth | 6 m | |
The Laguna de Aculeo is a completely dried up lake near the city of Paine in Chile since 2018 .
The lake, located about two hours' drive from the Chilean capital Santiago de Chile , was a popular destination for water sports until it dried out. It had an area of about 12 km 2 at a depth of 6 m. From 2014 the lake lost its original dimensions until it finally dried out completely in spring 2018.
literature
- Rodrigo Villa-Martınez, Carolina Villagran, Bettina Jenny: Pollen evidence for late-Holocene climatic variability at Laguna de Aculeo, Central Chile (lat. 34 S) . The Holocene 14.3 (2004), pp. 363-369
- S. Cabrera S., V. Montecino B .: Eutrophy in Lake Aculeo, Chile . Plant and Soil, Volume 67, 1982, pp. 377-387 ( JSTOR )
Web links
- La laguna Aculeo, antes atractivo de Chile, seca por completo (video, Spanish)
- Lucas Cifuentes, Nicole Kramm: Chile se va secando: Aculeo está muerto . eldesconcierto.cl, February 18, 2019 (Spanish)
- Philipp Reeves: In Chile, Many Regard Climate Change As The Greatest External Threat . NPR, July 16, 2017 (audio, English, 7:42 min)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Satellite image of the week - Damn it, there was a lake here! . Spiegel Online, April 22, 2019