Laq'a Jawira

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Laq'a Jawira
River
Name origin: Aymara
Country Bolivia
Region Oruro Department
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Laq'a Jawira (Aymara laq'a earth (soil), [1] jawira river, [2] "earth river"; hispanicized spellings: Laca Jahuira / Lacajahuira) is a river in Bolivia which runs from Lake Poopó. Its length is entirely within the territory of Oruro Department.

Aymara language native language in South America

Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers. Aymara, along with Spanish, is one of the official languages of Bolivia and parts of Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language.

Bolivia country in South America

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.

Lake Poopó salt lake

Lake Poopó is a large saline lake located in a shallow depression in the Altiplano Mountains in Oruro Department, Bolivia, at an altitude of approximately 3,700 m (12,100 ft). Because the lake was long and wide, it made up the eastern half of the department, known as a mining region in southwest Bolivia. The permanent part of the lake body covered approximately 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) and it was the second-largest lake in the country. The lake received most of its water from the Desaguadero River, which flows from Lake Titicaca at the north end of the Altiplano. Since the lake lacked any major outlet and had a mean depth of less than 3 m (10 ft), the surface area differed greatly on a seasonal basis.

It runs from the extreme south-west of the lake, and heads west-south-west. It has a length of 135 kilometres, after which it is lost in the salar de Coipasa.

Its waters are salty at the point at which it meets the lake.

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References

  1. www.katari.org Laq'a (s.) Tierra.
  2. www.katari.org Jawira (s.) Río con o sin agua.

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