Which is the highest lake in the world?

We know Earth is home to thousands of wonderful things, even Lakes is one of them. A lake is a beautiful creation of nature whereas some of created by human effort activities or some of naturally earth physical processes. Lake could be found surrounded by rocks, craters, mud land, it has many formations some are larger some are small. Every Lake is not permanent some are just seasonal temporary, as well as some lakes are found in extremely high locations and some are in very low elevations.

We know there are uncountable higher lakes around the world. But here we have arranged a list of the top 10 highest lakes by their altitude.

If you want to know more information about it stick till the end of this post.

Here we take a look at the Top 10 highest lakes in the world.

The highest lake in the world:

10. Ridonglabo Lake, Tibet

9. Aguas Calientes Lake, Chile

8. Lake Licancábur, Chile/Bolivia

7. Tres Cruces Norte Lake, Chile

6. Acamarachi Lake, Chile

5. Cerro Tipas Lake, Argentina

4. East Rongbuk Lake, Tibet

3. Changtse Lake, Tibet

2. Lhagba Lake, Tibet

1. Ojos del Salado Lake, Argentina/Chile

10. Ridonglabo Lake, Tibet

Ridonglabo Lake is a neighbor to Mount Everest - 1 km northeast of the summit. It has a 5801 meters elevation on the map of 1988. Ridonglabo Lake is a small pool-type lake. Ridonglabo is located in the Tibetan Himalayas. It is mainly located in the valley to the northwest of the Karda Valley, where the Karda Glacier ends at the end of Karda Lake. We can see this clearly in Google Earth Photos.

9. Aguas Calientes Lake, Chile

The Aguas Calientes volcano is located in northern Chile. The lake is 5,831m above sea level. Also, the name of the volcano where it is located probably comes from the volcano-Hot waters, the lake is a crater lake at the volcano's summit. This crater is contained in the worst amazing lakes because of its color.

8. Lake Licancabur, Chile/Bolivia

This Licancabur Lake is made of craters water, which has lies in the Antofagasta region. This lake was founded in 1953 by the climber. It is one of the top highest lakes in the world, at an elevation of 5,900 meters, it is 85m long, And It covered a place area of 7,000squre meters in 2002. It has close to San Pedro de Atacama, and it also very close to the border of Bolivia with Chile. Lake Licancabur is slightly saline maybe it heated geothermally. It has near the Atacama Desert.

7. Tres Cruces Norte Lake, Chile

The tree cruces Norte lake is located in Chile. Where the lagoon sits, it is a piece of the larger national park. This crater lake is in a partial-open caldera of the lowest of the 'Three Crosses'. NASA radar survey shows an altitude of 5915m, however, a handheld GPS indicated an altitude of 5906m. The lake depth is 12.1 meters.

6. Acamarachi Lake, Chile

Acamarachi Lake is a small pond of liquid water, It is between the rocks in the summit crater of the Acamarachi volcano in northern Chile. It Located at a height of 5950meters. but yet it has never been measured officially. as well this lake is definitely important for history. Acamarachi Lake is also called Cerro Pili, maybe it will extinct in the future. When it was known to exist, it was only 10 to 15 meters in diameter.

5. Cerro Tipas Lake, Argentina

The Cerro Tips is also called Cerro Walther Penck lake and known as Cerro Cazadero lake. It located in Argentina. This is not a pool it’s a lake as the higher actual lake on the planet. Whereas it’s located at a height of 5,990 meters.

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4. EastRongbuk Lake, Tibet

EastRongbuk Lake lies in the Himalayas of southern Tibet. It looks like a pool size. But East Rongbuk Lake is not a permanent lake. It is made from meltwater high in the Himalayas. East Rongbuk's height is 6100 meters. Obviously don’t think it to be an easy trek, this high altitude makes it harder to go there. It lies in the East Rongbuk glacier, it’s a temporary seasonal lake that visible whenever the snow melts.

3. Changtse Lake, Tibet

Changtse Lake is a pond of temporary meltwater. Where it has a build in the center of the Changtse Glacier, southeast of Changzheng and north of Changtse Peak. It has nearly by mt Everest, about  1 kilometer west and 7 kilometers north of Chomolungma itself. It lies in Tibet at 6,216 meters high. Changtse Lake has 230 meters in width while its length is about 180 meters.

 

2. Lhagba Lake, Tibet

The Lhagba Lake lies in Tibet at 6,368 meters high. It lies a few miles northbound of Mount Everest, about 6 km northern and 3 kilometers eastbound of the summit. Lhagba Lake is once considered the 2nd highest lake. However, Lhagba Lake is now considered extinct. It also looks like pool size. It's really pretty tiny, and it looks about 180 m long and 50 meters wide.

1. Ojos del Salado Lake, Argentina/Chile

This lake 'Ojos del Salado' is the world's higher lake at 6,400 meters high as well as Ojos del Salado is known as the world's higher-altitude active volcano. This Lake is on the southeastern side of Ojos del Salado, And on the fringe between Argentina and Chile. The lake is sometimes fallaciously called a "crater" lake. It's only 100m in diameter. And Still, This lake is the world's higher lake. 

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