Lake Saracocha

{{Short description|Lake in Puno, Peru}}

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Lake Saracocha (possibly from Quechua sara maize, qucha lake, lagoon)Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary): sara - s. Maíz. / Maíz amarillo: Q'illu sara. qucha, qhucha, quchacha. - s. Laguna. Lago pequeño. qucha, qhucha. - s. Lago. Gran masa de agua en una depresión. is a lake in the Cabanillas District, Puno Region, southeastern Peru. Lake Saracocha is located just southeast of Lake Lagunillas. These two Andean highland lakes are part of the system drained by the Coata River, which flows in a generally easterly direction until entering westernmost Lake Titicaca, about {{cvt|50|km|mi|-1}} from Lake Saracocha as the crow flies.{{cite book | author=Vellard, J. | year=1992 | chapter=The Amphibia | pages=449–557 | editor1=C. Dejoux | editor2=A. Iltis | title=Lake Titicaca: a synthesis of limnological knowledge | publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers | isbn=0-7923-1663-0 }}{{cite journal | author1=Benavides, E. | author2=J.C. Ortiz | author3=J.W. Sites, JR. | year=2002 | title=Species boundaries among the Telmatobius (Anura : Leptodactylidae) of the Lake Titicaca basin: Allozyme and morphological evidence | journal=Herpetologica | volume=58 | issue=1 | pages=31–55 | doi=10.1655/0018-0831(2002)058[0031:SBATTA]2.0.CO;2 }}

The lake is home to Orestias pupfish. Rainbow trout have been introduced, which probably played a role in the apparent disappearance of the relatively small local "crawfordi" form of the Titicaca water frog.