Lake · La Paz Department

Titicaca

3,809 m12,497 ft

Area: 6,824 km²
Max depth: 489 m
Tonight: 9°CRain showers · Wind 17 km/h SW

Titicaca is a lake at 3,809 m above sea level in La Paz Department, Bolivia, 6,824 km² in area and 152.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 3,809 m
Length: 152.1 km
Shoreline: 1,389.4 km

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3D map

Titicaca 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Titicaca 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.

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Titicaca elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGTiticaca satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-06-19.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Titicaca in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1,389.4 km

Weather

Titicaca weather

Tonight · Rain showers · 9°C (48°F) · 8.0 mm · Wind 17 km/h SW

Titicaca forecast for about 3,809 m.

Tonight9°8.0 mm17 km/h SW
Sat10°16°2.7 mm27 km/h SW
Sun8°16°28.8 mm37 km/h NE
Mon9°13°3.9 mm18 km/h NW
Tue7°15°0.9 mm31 km/h NE
Wed7°12°9.8 mm26 km/h NE
Thu8°15°1.5 mm34 km/h NE
Fri8°14°1.6 mm27 km/h NE
Sat9°15°0.6 mm24 km/h NE
Sun10°16°0.2 mm34 km/h NE

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.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 90% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

89.8%

Moderate, 15–30°

9.4%

Steep, 30–45°

0.8%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.8% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 576 m low point 3,808 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 67.3%Grassland 25.3%Bare rock / sparse 3.1%Cropland 2.5%Wetland 1.0%Trees 0.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Titicaca sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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UbinasPeak · 5,672 m192 km WSW

Sources

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 2026 (scene 2026-06-19)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia