__NOTOC__ Milluni (Aymara millu light brown, reddish, fair-haired, dark chestnut,aymara.ucb.edu.bo CAFÉ claro. Bermejo, ja. // Pelirrubio, bia. De pelo rubio. // Castaño obscuro. adj. Paqu, p'aqu, chuchi, millu. -ni suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a brown colour") is a lake on the western side of the Cordillera Real of Bolivia located in the La Paz Department, Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, El Alto Municipality, north of El Alto.
The lake is situated at a height of 4,565 metres (14,977 ft) south of the mountain Wayna Potosí, at the foot of Chacaltaya. It is about 1.83 km long and 1 km at its widest point. The surface is 2.37 km2 (0.92 sq mi).Sonia Isela Sacaca Cuellar, "Distribución de bacterias sulfato reductoras en sedimentos de lagunas y turbera de la cuenca Milluni Cordellera Real, La Paz-Bolivia", Tesis para optar al grado de licenciatura en Bioquímica, La Paz, Bolivia, 2009, p. 35 At the south side there is a dam.
Milluni Lake is also called Milluni Grande (Spanish for big) in order to distinguish it from a smaller, half moon shaped lake next to it in the north, Milluni Chico (Spanish for small), which is situated at a height of 4,585 m.
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See also Laram Quta Milluni Peak Phaq'u Quta Zongo River
References
External links
El Alto Municipality: population data and map showing Milluni Lake