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24 largest lakes in South America

24 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Lake Titicaca8,372 km²
  2. 2Mar Chiquita5,770 km²
  3. 3Lagoa Mirim3,994 km²
  4. 4General Carrera Lake1,850 km²
  5. 5Lake Argentino1,415 km²
  6. 6Poopó Lake1,340 km²
  7. 7Lake Viedma1,088 km²
  8. 8O'Higgins/San Martín Lake1,058 km²
  9. 9Llanquihue Lake860 km²
  10. 10Lake Colhué Huapi791 km²
  11. 11Lagoa do Erepecur614 km²
  12. 12Nahuel Huapi Lake557 km²
  13. 13Laguna Iberá495 km²
  14. 14Ranco Lake442 km²
  15. 15Lake Musters414 km²
  16. 16Cardiel Lake345 km²
  17. 17Lake Tacarigua o Valencia344 km²
  18. 18Laguna Rogaguado315 km²
  19. 19Laguna Huatunas284 km²
  20. 20Rupanco Lake223 km²
  21. 21Lago Grande212 km²
  22. 22Concepción Lake200 km²
  23. 23Lac Fontana82 km²
  24. 24Lago La Plata76 km²

Surface area in km²: the Largest Lakes set’s figure for its lakes, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Seasonal salt pans keep their recorded figure; their area varies. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

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