A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades ago in its wet season peak it would stretch ...

High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 meters (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially dried up before only to rebound to twice ...

Bolivia’s Lake Poopo was once a fountain of life for local inhabitants, who fished from its teeming waters and farmed along its banks. Now it is a desert. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

PUNACA TINTA MARIA, Bolivia (AP) — For many generations, the homeland of the Uru people here wasn't land at all: It was the brackish waters of Lake Poopo. The Uru — “people of the water” — would build ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LOCAL, CRISTINA MAMANI, SAYING: "The water of Lake Poopo would start here. We would arrive from the Untavi community by boat with all my children. The water would reach here and ...

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Bolivia’s second largest lake has disappeared, displacing hundreds if not thousands of people who depend on it for their livelihoods. Lake Poopo was officially declared “evaporated” last month in what ...

Puñaca Tinta María (Bolivia) (AFP) – An abandoned boat rests on the cracked earth where formerly it floated. Lake Poopo, once Bolivia's second-largest, has mostly disappeared -- taking with it a ...

At Bolivia’s lake Lake Poopo, where there used to be water, there is now a dry bed. The lake has suffered many droughts before, but this dry spell has endured for the past 20 years due to the combined ...

A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades ago in its wet season peak it would stretch ...