Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente en el Sistema Hídrico TITICACA-DESAGUADEROPOOPÓ-SALAR DE COIPASA (TDPS) -- GEO Titicaca

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Issue date: 2011

The Environment Outlook report on the Water-Drainage System-Poopó Titicaca Salar de-Coipasa (TDPS)-GEO Titicaca. Under the GEO (Global Environment Outlook), this unique report assesses the state of the Bolivian-Peruvian Altiplano endorheic basin ecosystem, which runs along with the Amazon and the Rio de la Plata, constituting one of the three major river systems of the South American continent. The TDPS System territory, located between 3,600 and 6,500 meters, houses a variety exceptional flora and fauna, making it an important gene pool world, in particular considering the resulting agrobiodiversity cultural practices developed over millennia by the native peoples of the central Andes, among which stand out as important foods such as potatoes and quinoa, or the domestication of the llama, alpaca and other camelids endemic to the region, elements that explain, in turn, the survival of these peoples who make up the majority of this burgeoning  local population.