... , 12,000-13,000 feet above sea level, which lies between the Occidental and Oriental ranges. It broadest point is over 200 miles north Lake Poopo, where the Andes reach their greatest width, approximately 400 miles. The Altiplano is divided into a number of basins by spurs of the ... Andes. The northernmost of these basins, which extends into Peru, is partly occupied by the Lake Titicaca, at 12,507 feet, the world's highest large. Bolivia, Sandwiched between Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile and straddling the Andes, Bolivia ... the country became landlocked in 1880 when it los...

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