Yampupata Peninsula

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Coordinates: 16 ° 4 ′ 45 ″  S , 69 ° 6 ′ 24 ″  W

Map: Bolivia
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View from Isla del Sol (foreground) to the Yampupata Peninsula (background)
Strait of Yampupata between the Isla del Sol and the Yampupata Peninsula in Lake Titicaca

Yampupata is a peninsula in the Bolivian part of Lake Titicaca .

The Yampupata Peninsula is located in the northwestern part of the Copacabana Peninsula in the La Paz Department . Administratively it belongs to the Province of Manco Kapac , the Municipio Copacabana and the Canton of Zampaya . 975 meters northwest of the Yampupata Peninsula are the two islands Isla de la Luna and Isla del Sol ; the Strait of Yampupata runs between the latter and the peninsula .

The peninsula has a width of about 3 km and a length of about 10 km. The ridge of Yampupata rises with a height of 4026  m by about 200 m above the water level of Lake Titicaca. Larger towns on the peninsula are Yampupata on the northwest tip of the peninsula with 279 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) and Zampaya on the ridge of Yampupata.

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