Lake · Peru
Laguna de Paca
Lake in Peru
- Area
- 3.0km²
- Average depth
- 15m
- Elevation
- 3,358m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 6.7km
- Volume
- 0.045km³
Laguna de Paca is a lake in Peru. It covers 3.0 km². On average it is 15 m deep. Its surface lies 3,358 m above sea level.
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Stay, sail and get there
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The water
How warm is Laguna de Paca?
The water is warmest in November, around 19 °C at the surface, and coldest in July, around 15 °C. It rarely averages 20 °C, but it stays above 17 °C from September to April: brisk, refreshing swimming.
It does not normally freeze in winter.
On the shore, afternoons reach 16 °C on average in November and 14 °C in July. The driest month is June (4 mm of rain), the wettest December (33 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (146 readings). Shallow bays and beaches are often warmer.
From above
The whole lake from space
Month by month
The year at the lake, month by month
Not a forecast: these are averages over many years. Water is the 2013–2021 average; air, rain, sun and wind are the 1991–2020 average.
Water: 2013–2021 averageClimate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 25 | 8 | 4.4 | 11 |
| February | 18 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 30 | 9 | 3.8 | 11 |
| March | 18 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 24 | 8 | 4.1 | 11 |
| April | 18 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5.8 | 10 |
| May | 17 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7.5 | 10 |
| June | 16 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8.3 | 10 |
| July | 15 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8.2 | 10 |
| August | 16 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7.6 | 12 |
| September | 17 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5.6 | 12 |
| October | 18 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 5.5 | 12 |
| November | 19 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 5.8 | 11 |
| December | 18 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 33 | 7 | 4.4 | 11 |
Water: LakeTEMP (Landsat 8, 2013–2021). Air, rain, sun and wind: NASA POWER, 1991–2020 averages. A rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. Sunshine hours are derived from measured solar radiation.
Size & depth
How big, how deep
- On average, water stays in the lake for about 19 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 32 km² of land.
- About 0.9 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
Around the shore
What's around Laguna de Paca
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- —beaches and swimming spots
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- —marinas and slipways
- —ferry piers
- —viewpoints
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- 1restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Paca769 people
- Pancan704 people
- San Pedro de Chunan558 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Francisco Carle Airport (JAU), 7 km in a straight line.
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Photos
Seen by visitors
Recent years
How each month compared
Afternoon high on the shore. The first row is the reference, the 1991–2020 average in °C; the years below show the difference from it: warmer in orange, cooler in blue.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2020 average | 14.9 | 14.9 | 14.9 | 15.0 | 14.8 | 14.1 | 13.9 | 14.6 | 15.2 | 15.7 | 15.8 | 15.1 |
| 2020 | +0.3 | +0.5 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.3 | +1.0 | +0.5 | +1.1 | −0.1 | +0.6 | +0.2 | −0.7 |
| 2021 | −1.4 | −0.6 | −1.1 | −0.6 | −0.5 | −0.1 | +0.2 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +1.1 | −0.6 | +0.3 |
| 2022 | −0.2 | −0.7 | −0.6 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +0.7 | +1.1 | +0.7 | +0.5 |
| 2023 | −0.4 | −0.2 | −0.6 | −0.1 | −0.1 | +0.5 | +1.5 | +1.2 | +1.1 | +1.3 | +0.8 | +0.8 |
| 2024 | +1.7 | +1.2 | +0.9 | +1.5 | +1.4 | +1.7 | +0.9 | +1.0 | +0.4 | +0.3 | +0.1 | +0.6 |
| 2025 | +0.3 | −0.5 | −1.5 | −1.8 | −1.1 | −0.8 | −0.7 | −0.9 | −0.5 | −0.4 | −0.5 | +0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
About these numbers
| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|
| Water temperature and ice | LakeTEMP v1 (Korver et al. 2024), Landsat 8 2013–2021 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Air, rain, sun, wind | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 · public domain |
| Names and description | Wikidata (Q3303737) · CC0 |
| Around the shore | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
