Salt lake · Bolivia
Laguna Verde
Salt lake in Potosí Department, Bolivia
- Area
- 4.9km²
- Average depth
- 9.1m
- Elevation
- 4,324m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 9.7km
- Volume
- 0.044km³
Laguna Verde is a salt lake in Bolivia. It covers 4.9 km². On average it is 9.1 m deep. Its surface lies 4,324 m above sea level.
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The water
How warm is Laguna Verde?
The water is warmest in January, around 13 °C at the surface, and coldest in June, around 0 °C. Even at its warmest, the surface stays below 17 °C on average: this is cold water.
The lake usually freezes over for about 104 days a year, from around 15 May to 26 August.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in December and 17 °C in July. The driest month is June (0 mm of rain), the wettest February (8 mm).
Average surface temperature measured by the Landsat 8 satellite between 2013 and 2021 at the point furthest from the shore (89 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 | 13 | 13 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 13.0 | 15 |
| February | 13 | 13 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 12.1 | 14 |
| March | 10 | 12 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 12.2 | 13 |
| April | 5 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11.5 | 13 |
| May | Ice | — | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10.9 | 13 |
| June | Ice | — | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 14 |
| July | Ice | — | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10.7 | 14 |
| August | Ice | — | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.2 | 14 |
| September | 3 | 5 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11.9 | 14 |
| October | 7 | 8 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12.5 | 14 |
| November | 10 | 11 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13.1 | 14 |
| December | 12 | 13 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 13.4 | 15 |
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
- Its catchment drains 70 km² of land.
Around the shore
What's around Laguna Verde
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
- 1viewpoints
Mirador de la Laguna Verde
- —hotels, B&Bs and chalets
- —fishing spots
- —restaurants and cafés
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: El Loa Airport (CJC), 114 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 | 25.8 | 25.1 | 24.5 | 22.4 | 19.0 | 17.8 | 17.3 | 19.3 | 21.3 | 23.5 | 25.0 | 25.9 |
| 2020 | −0.2 | +1.3 | +0.8 | +1.0 | +1.9 | +0.2 | +1.2 | −0.7 | +0.7 | +1.8 | +0.3 | +0.2 |
| 2021 | −0.6 | +0.5 | −0.2 | −0.1 | +0.2 | −0.9 | +1.3 | −0.2 | +1.3 | +0.2 | +0.2 | +0.1 |
| 2022 | ±0.0 | +0.5 | −0.1 | −0.6 | −0.1 | −1.3 | +1.6 | −0.1 | −2.0 | −1.2 | +0.8 | −0.3 |
| 2023 | +0.2 | ±0.0 | +1.4 | +0.5 | +2.0 | +2.0 | +3.2 | +2.5 | +2.2 | +1.6 | +1.2 | +2.6 |
| 2024 | +3.1 | +1.8 | +2.5 | +1.8 | +1.6 | +1.7 | +1.5 | −0.5 | +2.1 | +1.5 | +1.5 | +1.1 |
| 2025 | +0.6 | +1.8 | +0.5 | −0.3 | +2.6 | −1.2 | +2.3 | −0.4 | +1.4 | +0.4 | +0.5 | −0.8 |
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ChileAbout 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 (Q1062100) · 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.
