Fears are growing for the future of water supplies in one of Latin America's fastest-growing urban areas - Bolivia's sprawling city of La Paz and its neighbour El Alto. Scientists monitoring the glaciers high in the Andes mountains - a key source of water - say the ice is showing signs of shrinking faster than previously forecast. Faced with a booming population and a combination of glacial retreat and reduced rainfall, the governor of the La Paz region is even contemplating moving people to other parts of Bolivia.

Marianne Bom / COP15

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El Titicaca es un lago de origen tectónico. Se formó aproximadamente durante la era terciaria debido al hundimiento de una parte de la antigua meseta andina, formó parte, junto con el lago Poopó, del extinto lago Ballivián que se extendía por la meseta del collao. Su área primitiva era mucho más extensa y en la actualidad es un lago residual.

La vegetación del lago se clasifica en anfibia, sumergida y flotante, y compone uno de los principales elementos del ciclo del ecosistema. Su flora está representada por 12 variedades de plantas acuáticas resaltando la totora (Scirpus californicus), la yana llacho (Elodea potamogeton), la lenteja de agua (Lemna sp.) y la purima (Chara sp.).

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