Lake Guatavita
- Area
- 0.12 km²
- Max depth
- 125 m
- Tonight
- 9°CCloudy · Wind 7 km/h NE
Lake Guatavita is a lake at 2,983 m above sea level in Cundinamarca Department, Colombia, 0.12 km² in area and 0.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 2,983 m
- Length
- 0.4 km
- Shoreline
- 1.2 km
Lake Guatavita 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Lake Guatavita topographic map
20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Lake Guatavita elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Guatavita downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Print & wall
3D printing & 3D apps
GIS & GPS
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Lake Guatavita in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.2 km≈15 min to walk around
Lake Guatavita weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 9°C (48°F) · Wind 7 km/h NE
Lake Guatavita forecast for about 2,983 m.
- Tonight9°–7 km/h NE
- Sat8°16°2.9 mm17 km/h SE
- Sun8°17°1.2 mm15 km/h SE
- Mon7°17°4.8 mm15 km/h SE
- Tue10°17°9.7 mm7 km/h E
- Wed9°13°6.9 mm12 km/h E
- Thu10°14°14.6 mm8 km/h E
- Fri9°15°5.6 mm7 km/h E
- Sat8°17°1.0 mm15 km/h SE
- Sun8°18°0.6 mm14 km/h SE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Guatavita
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Guatavita, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.8 km ENE
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 71% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 5.7% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 431 m low point 2,784 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 149 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Espeletia corymbosa57
- Purple foxglove31
- Fly Agaric29
- Bejaria resinosa29
- Excremis coarctata19
- Tropical blueberry17
Where Lake Guatavita sits
- Region
- Colombia25South America235
Nearby places
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-01-22)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)