Lake Lagunillas Explained

Lake Lagunillas
Pushpin Map:	Peru
Coords:	-15.725°N -70.7356°W
Basin Countries:	Peru

Lake Lagunillas is a lake in the Andes of far southeastern Peru. Lagunillas is at an altitude of about and it is located just northwest of Lake Saracocha. These two lakes are part of the system drained by the Coata River, which flows in a generally easterly direction until entering westernmost Lake Titicaca, about from Lake Lagunillas as the crow flies.^{[1] [2]}

In 2014, the pupfish Orestias luteus made up slightly more than 70% of catches in fisheries, with the remaining being the introduced rainbow trout, a species also farmed in the lake.^[3] Lake Lagunillas is home to the unusual and relatively large "escomeli" form of the Titicaca water frog.^[1]

See also

• List of lakes in Peru

References

• INEI, Compendio Estadistica 2007, page 26

Notes and References

1. Book: Vellard, J. . 1992 . The Amphibia . 449–557 . C. Dejoux . A. Iltis . Lake Titicaca: a synthesis of limnological knowledge . Kluwer Academic Publishers . 0-7923-1663-0 .
2. Benavides, E. . J.C. Ortiz . J.W. Sites, JR. . 2002 . Species boundaries among the Telmatobius (Anura : Leptodactylidae) of the Lake Titicaca basin: Allozyme and morphological evidence . Herpetologica . 58 . 1 . 31–55 . 10.1655/0018-0831(2002)058[0031:SBATTA]2.0.CO;2 .
3. IMARPE . PELT . 2014 . Monitoreo ecológico y limnológico de la Laguna de Lagunillas, Lampa - Puno (Convenio IMARPE-PELT) . IMARPE - Laboratorio Continental de Puno . 1 . 1–53 . 10.13140/RG.2.1.1592.6004 .