The mini-satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-V, responsible for monitoring the surface of the Earth daily, has revealed the disappearance of the second largest lake in Bolivia. ESA and confirms the complete evaporation of Lake Poopo. Salt Lake Poopó occupied a depression of the Cordillera del Altiplano and covered an area of 3,000 square kilometers.
Disappeared Popoo, the second largest lake in Bolivia.
The three images Proba-V, which accompany this article, were taken on April 27, 2014, on July 20, 2015 and January 22, 2016, respectively. Salt Lake Poopó occupied a depression of the Cordillera del Altiplano and covered an area of 3,000 square kilometers, higher than the Reunion Island.
However, the superficial nature of the lake, which had an average depth of only three meters, together with the mountainous arid environment, caused it to be very sensitive to fluctuations in climate. Its official declared evaporation December. Although not the first time that the lake Poopó evaporates (the last was in 1994), there are fears that this may take you many years to be completed, if you were to do so.
Meanwhile local fishermen have lost their livelihood and the lake’s ecosystem shows highly vulnerable. Lake Poopó is recognized as a wetland preserved under the international Ramsar Convention. Evaporation has been linked to several causes, including the extraction of water sources lake for mining and agriculture, constant drought caused by warming of the Pacific Ocean because of El Niño and climate change.
evaporation is related to several causes, including the extraction of water sources and droughts caused by the warming of the Pacific
Proba-V, released on May 7, 2013 is a satellite thumbnail ESA plays a task on a large scale mapping land cover and vegetation growth worldwide every other day. The width of transcontinental sweep of 2,250 kilometers which has its main camera collects light in the bands of blue, red often, near infrared and mid-infrared at 300 meter resolution and up to 100 meter resolution in its field of central vision.
El Pais, Spain
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