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 ...
As Andean glaciers disappear, so do the sources of Lake Poopó’s water, say scientists who blame a warming environment, El Niño and mining Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what ...
(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 ...
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 centuries-old culture reliant entirely on its ...
UNTAVI, Bolivia (AP) – Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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