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Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable lake on Earth
Passenger and freight vessels cross this Andean lake at 3,812 metres altitude
Straddling the border between Peru and Bolivia in the Andes, Lake Titicaca sits at an elevation of 3,812 metres above sea level. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America. Indigenous communities have navigated its waters on traditional totora reed boats for thousands of years.
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- Passenger and freight vessels cross this Andean lake at 3,812 metres altitude. The figure is taken from UNESCO, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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