Poopó

American  

[paw-aw-paw] / ˌpɔ ɔˈpɔ /

noun

1. a lake in southwestern Bolivia, in the Andes. 60 miles (95 kilometers) long; 12,000 feet (3,660 meters) above sea level.

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Poopó British  

/ pooˈpo /

noun

1. a lake in SW Bolivia, at an altitude of 3688 m (12 100 ft): fed by the Desaguadero River. Area: 2540 sq km (980 sq miles)

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Etymology

Origin of Poopó

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

She met with people on the desiccated shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and saw fishing boats abandoned on the dry bed of what was once Bolivia’s Lake Poopó.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2023

Martínez lives roughly 100 miles from Lake Poopó, which was the country’s second-largest lake before it dried up in 2015.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

Wildfires in California, the rapid evaporation of Lake Poopó in the Bolivian altiplano, and deep droughts in the Sahel of Africa and in large parts of Australia are signs of what is to come.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2018

Our special report on the evaporation of Bolivia’s second-largest lake, Poopó, tracks the plight of indigenous people robbed of their way of life by climate change.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016