A. Arsen, Jean‐François Crétaux, Muriel Bergé‐Nguyen, Rodrigo Abarca-del-Río,
... at 3,686 m above sea level, Lake Poopó is remarkably shallow and very sensitive to hydrologic ... drying has been observed in the entire Titicaca-Poopó-Desaguadero-Salar de Coipasa (TPDS) system during the last decade, causing dramatic changes to Lake Poopó’s surface and its regional water supplies. Our research aims to improve understanding of Lake Poopó water storage capacity. Thus, we propose a new ... freely available remote sensing data to reproduce Lake Poopó bathymetry. Laser ranging altimeter ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and ...
Tópico(s): Automated Road and Building Extraction
2013 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Rodrigo Abarca-del-Río, Jean-François Cretaux, Muriel Bergé‐Nguyen, Philippe Maisongrande,
... geographical source of water inflowing into the Lake Poopó system. The results suggest that over the time ... a great part of the variability of the Poopó system originates from geographic sources other than Lake ... the Desaguadero River (which connects lakes Titicaca and Poopó). This change in the hydrology of this region ... of water supplies and endanger the already fragile Poopó system as well as the regional socioeconomic system, ...
Tópico(s): Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Remote Sensing Letters
Denis Wirrmann, Philippe Mourguiart,
... are three main lacustrine basins: Lake Titicaca, Lake Poopó, and the group of Coipasa-Uyuni. For the ... Titicaca in the north is oligohaline, whereas Lake Poopó further south is polyhaline. In the south, the ... P.), the water depth and salinity in paleolake Poopó fluctuated widely and paleolake Titicaca was slightly larger ... During the Holocene, a dry period transformed Lake Poopó into a "salar" with evaporite precipitation. Lake Titicaca ... to that of the modern brines of Lake Poopó. Lake Titicacas' present condition only appeared between 2200 ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1995 - Cambridge University Press | Quaternary Research

Frédéric Satgé, Raúl Espinoza, Ramiro Pillco Zolá, Henrique Llacer Roig, F. Timouk, Jorge Molina‐Carpio, Jérémie Garnier, Stéphane Calmant, F. Seyler, Marie‐Paule Bonnet,
... an emergency state was declared in Bolivia when Poopó Lake dried up. Climate variability and the increasing ... is a preliminary step toward the understanding of Poopó Lake drought using remote sensing data. First, atmospheric ... products potentiality were assessed. Then, the fluctuations of Poopó Lake extent over the last 26 years are ... to the regional desertification and recent disappearance of Poopó Lake.
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2017 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Nilo Lima, Marisa Escobar, A. J. Wickel, Manon von Kaenel, David Purkey,
The catchment area of Lakes Titicaca and Poopó is located in the Peruvian-Bolivian Altiplano in the central Andes of South America. We quantified the impact of irrigation and climate variability ... fluctuation of water levels in Lakes Titicaca and Poopó by applying the WEAP model to dynamically represents ... remaining ∼20 % is due to irrigation. In Lake Poopó the role of climate also prevails with a ... the fact that the net inputs in Lake Poopó depend mostly on regional flows and on the ...
Tópico(s): Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
... of these, Lake Ballivian, included the present-day Poopó and Titicaca. The other, slightly more recent, is ... as Lake Minchin, and included only the present Poopó basin, although Titicaca was probably in existence. These ... aridity of the country increased again, and Lakes Poopó and Titicaca are gradually shrinking. Poopó is nearly dry, while Titicaca will sink below ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
1939 - Oxford University Press | Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 3rd Series
Ramiro Pillco Zolá, Lars Bengtsson,
Abstract Lake Poopó, within the large Altiplano basin of Bolivia, is connected upstream to Lake Titicaca and downstream to the salares, ... to create a water-level series for Lake Poopó extending back in time. The dominant water inflow to Lake Poopó is from the River Desaguadero, which constitutes the ...
Tópico(s): Flood Risk Assessment and Management
2006 - Taylor & Francis | Hydrological Sciences Journal
Oswaldo Eduardo Ramos Ramos, Tobías S. Rötting, Megan French, Ondra Šráček, Jochen Bundschuh, Jorge Quintanilla, Prosun Bhattacharya,
... trace elements (TEs) in mining areas of the Poopó and Antequera River sub-basins on the Bolivian ... total variance for Antequera and 83.9% for Poopó sub-basins. Four factors for surface water data ( ... the total variance in Antequera and 96% in Poopó sub-basins. The As and TEs mobilized in ...
Tópico(s): Heavy metals in environment
2014 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Hydrology
Mauricio Ormachea, Hannes Wern, Fredrick Johnsson, Prosun Bhattacharya, Ondra Šráček, Roger Thunvik, Jorge Quintanilla, Jochen Bundschuh,
Environmental settings in the southern area of Lake Poopó in the Bolivian highlands, the Altiplano, have generated ... drinking water wells and rivers, in the southern Poopó basin in two different field campaigns during the ... the pattern of As mobilisation in the Southern Poopó Basin.
Tópico(s): Heavy metals in environment
2013 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Hazardous Materials
... links Lake Titicaca to lakes Urur Uru and Poopo and, in wet years to the Coipasa Salt ... problem for the Lake Titicaca/Desaguadero River/Lake Poopo system involves the use of water resources. The ... that would have full autonomy for Titicaca–Desaguadero/Poopo system decisions related to implementing the master plan ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
2001 - Wiley | Lakes & Reservoirs Science Policy and Management for Sustainable Use
Jessica De Loma, Noemí Tirado, Franz Ascui, Michael Levi, Marie Vahter, Karin Broberg, Jacques Gardon,
... have been detected in well water around Lake Poopó, Bolivia. This study aimed to assess human exposure to arsenic in villages around Lake Poopó, and also to elucidate whether the metabolism and ... recruited 201 women from 10 villages around Lake Poopó. Arsenic exposure was determined as the sum concentration ...
Tópico(s): Heavy metals in environment
2018 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
Belén Torres, Joan Carles Melgarejo i Draper, Lisard Torró, Antoni Camprubí, Montgarri Castillo-Oliver, David Artiaga, Marc Campeny, Esperança Tauler, Abigail Jiménez–Franco, María Pura Alfonso Abella, Osvaldo R. Arce-Burgoa,
The tin-rich polymetallic epithermal deposit of Poopó, of plausible Late Miocene age, is part of the Bolivian Tin Belt. As an epithermal low sulfidation mineralisation, it represents a typological end- ... the complex mineralogy and mineral chemistry of the Poopó deposit with the twofold aim of identifying the ... Ga and Ge), the key minerals in the Poopó deposit, based on their abundance in the deposit ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Minerals
Israel Quino Lima, Mauricio Ormachea, Oswaldo Eduardo Ramos Ramos, Jorge Quintanilla Aguirre, Jyoti Prakash Maity, Ahmad Arslan, Prosun Bhattacharya,
... Basin: LKB) and the southern part of Lake Poopó (Southern Poopó Basin: SPB) have high concentrations of arsenic (As), > ... stretching along the southern shores of the Lake Poopó, between the villages of Pampa Aullagas and Condo ...
Tópico(s): Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Jean‐Loup Guyot, Michel-Alain Roche, Luis Noriega, H. Calle, Javier Quintanilla,
... basin of the Lake Titicaca, Rio Desaguadero, Lake Poopo and salars, as well as their evolution from ... stations over several years. The junction of Lake Poopo and the Salar of Coipasa, since 1985 is ... the main source of dissolved matter to Lake Poopo via the Rio Desaguadero.
Tópico(s): Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
1990 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Hydrology
J. Barreta, Volga Iñiguez, Vladimir Saavedra, Fernando Romero, Ana María Callisaya, Joely Echalar, Beatriz Gutiérrez‐Gil, Juan-José Arranz,
... Curahuara–Cosapa pair, to 0.077 for the Poopó–Ayopaya and Poopó–Ulla Ulla pairs. The analysis of molecular variance ( ... this analysis suggested a genetic isolation of the Poopó population and the influence of the Turco population ...
Tópico(s): Livestock and Poultry Management
2012 - Elsevier BV | Small Ruminant Research
Juan Torres-Batlló, Belén Martí-Cardona, Ramiro Pillco Zolá,
Lake Poopó is located in the Andean Mountain Range Plateau or Altiplano. A general decline in the lake water ... of impoundments) to the detriment of the Lake Poopó downstream.
Tópico(s): Flood Risk Assessment and Management
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Ward Quaghebeur, Riley Mulhern, Silke Ronsse, Sara Heylen, Hester Blommaert, Sid Potemans, Carla Valdivia Mendizábal, Jhonny Terrazas García,
... by largely rural and indigenous communities around Lake Poopó in the Bolivian Altiplano are impacted by drought ... practitioners and programs addressing water security around Lake Poopó and the wider region. As a result, it ...
Tópico(s): Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
2019 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
Koen De Munter, Felipe Eduardo Trujillo Bilbao, Ruth Carol Rocha Grimoldi,
... on the consequences of the desertification of Lake Poopó, in Bolivia, particularly for the Uru-Qotzuñi group " ... and its inhabitants, thus weaving a meshwork of Poopó-Uru-Qotzuñi life. Methodology: A series of anthropological ... proposals, to learn together with the Uru of Poopó about attention and how to live with responsibility, ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2019 - Universidad de Los Andes | Antípoda Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
... disasters in the Desaguadero River floodplain and Lake Poopó watershed. My analysis builds on Henri Lefebvre's ... The first case is the drying of Lake Poopó in 2015, an event that garnered headlines around ... of farmers in a community in the Lake Poopó watershed to manage flood irrigation in their canal ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Society in Latin America
2018 - Elsevier BV | Geoforum
Nigel H. Poulter, Linda Nicolaides,
... pejerrey (Busilichthys bonariensis) captured in two locations, Lake Poopo and Lake Angostura; trout (Sulmo gairdneri) from Lake ... evaluations, were found to be: pejerrey from Lake Poopo: 20–21 days, pejerrey from Lake Angostura: 15‐ ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
1985 - Wiley | International Journal of Food Science & Technology
Heidi Leskinen, Jukka‐Pekka Suomela, Baoru Yang, Heikki Kallio,
... PoVPo) and Po/Po/O (43-61% of PoOPo) both differed from the random distribution of fatty ... temperatures showed positive correlations with the proportion of PoOPo in ssp. rhamnoides and wild ssp. sinensis and ...
Tópico(s): Botanical Studies and Applications
2009 - American Chemical Society | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Javier Quintanilla, O Ramos, Mauricio Ormachea, María Gabriela García, Hilda Ledo de Medina, Roger Thunvik,
... of surface water, groundwater and soils in the Poopo and Uru Uru basins and the Uyuni salt ... exception, the rivers that drain mining areas into Poopo lake are chemically contaminated. Some rivers are acid, ...
Tópico(s): Heavy metals in environment
2008 - CRC Press | Arsenic in the environment
Ramiro Pillco Zolá, Lars Bengtsson,
Abstract Lake Poopó in Bolivia is a large, extremely shallow lake. The lake surface area is ≈3000 km 2 at its ...
Tópico(s): Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
2007 - Wiley | Lakes & Reservoirs Science Policy and Management for Sustainable Use
William D. Gosling, Mark B. Bush, Jennifer A. Hanselman, Alex Chepstow‐Lusty,
... also supported by palaeoshoreline reconstructions from the Uyuni-Poopó region. However, our data do not suggest a ... U–Th ages obtained from palaeoshorelines around Lago Poopó. The most extreme dry event occurs during the ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2007 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Christa Placzek, Jay Quade, P. Jonathan Patchett,
... 000 km2) that once occupied the high-altitude Poopo, Coipasa, and Uyuni Basins in southern Bolivia (18– ... deep-lake cycle are extensively exposed in the Poopo Basin, but no deep lakes are apparent in ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2006 - Geological Society of America | Geological Society of America Bulletin
M.E. García, Jochen Bundschuh, Oswaldo Eduardo Ramos Ramos, J. Quinatanilla, Kenneth M. Persson, Lars Bengtsson, Ronny Berndtsson,
... the human food chain — was studied in the Poopo basin, located in ...
Tópico(s): Integrated Water Resources Management
2005 - | Revista Boliviana de Química
Alain Blieck, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, Francoise P. Bigey, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Philippe Janvier, Stanislas Loboziak, P.R. Rachebȩuf, Thierry Sempéré, Philippe Steemans,
... sections west of Cochabamba, and west of Lake Poopo, in western Bolivia, was conducted during a field ... The Copacabana de Andamarca section, west of Lake Poopo, is also dated as Middle Devonian on account ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
1996 - Elsevier BV | Journal of South American Earth Sciences

José R. Sandoval, Daniela R. Lacerda, Marilza S. Jota, Alberto Salazar‐Granara, Pedro Paulo Vieira, Óscar Acosta, Cinthia Cuellar, Susana Revollo, Ricardo Fujita, Fabrício R. Santos,
... different rulers established themselves around the Titicaca and Poopo Lakes. By the time of the arrival of ... Los Uros from Peru, Uru-Chipaya and Uru-Poopo from Bolivia), and compared their haplotype profiles with ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2013 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Claudia Canedo Rosso, Ramiro Pillco Zolá, Ronny Berndtsson,
... water resources storages, including the Lakes Titicaca and Poopó located in the northern and central Altiplano, respectively. ... watershed, called the Lake Titicaca, Desaguadero River, Lake Poopó, and Coipasa Salt Flat System (TDPS hydrologic system). ...
Tópico(s): Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
2016 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Water
Mauricio Ormachea, J. L. García-Aróstegui, Prosun Bhattacharya, Ondra Šráček, María Eugenia García Moreno, Claus Kohfahl, Jorge Quintanilla Aguirre, Jorge Hornero Diaz, Jochen Bundschuh,
... water from rivers of the southern part of Poopó Lake basin within the Bolivian Altiplano have significant ...
Tópico(s): Heavy metals in environment
2016 - Elsevier BV | Groundwater for Sustainable Development