Key facts
- Country
- Peru , Bolivia
- Region
- Altiplano
- Cities
- Desaguadero , San Andrés , Oruro
- Source
- Lake Titicaca
- Location
- Desaguadero , Peru
- Coordinates
- 16°33′49″S 69°02′11″W / 16.56361°S 69.03639°W / -16.56361; -69.03639
- Elevation
- 3,811 m (12,503 ft)
- Mouth
- Poopó Lake
- Length
- 320 km (200 mi)
- Basin size
- 90,000 km (35,000 sq mi)approx.
- Average
- 78 m /s (2,800 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 28 m /s (990 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 282 m /s (10,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Ch'alla Jawira , Llallawa Jawira , Jach'a Jawira (Caquiaviri) , Thujsa Jawira , Qala Jawira , Jach'a Jawira (Ingavi)
- Right
- Qullpa Jawira
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Peru
- Continent
- South America
- Image
- Iss040e075454.jpeg
- Length
- 436
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- Commons category
- Desaguadero River (Bolivia)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Poopó Lake
- lake on watercourse
- Titicaca
- watershed area
- 35000
- origin of the watercourse
- Titicaca
- discharge
- 78
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Desaguadero River, also known as Risawariru or Uchusumain, is a river shared between Bolivia and Peru. It drains Lake Titicaca from the southern part of the river basin, flowing south and draining approximately five percent of the lake's flood waters into Lake Uru Uru and Lake Poopó. Its source in the north is very near the Peruvian border.
It is navigable only by small craft and supports indigenous communities such as the Uru Muratu community.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yuca guasi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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