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Claim
At the Bolivia–Peru border lies Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America.
Correction
Lake Titicaca is not the largest lake in South America; it is widely described as the continent’s second-largest, after Lake Maracaibo (by surface area).
Full reasoning
Encyclopaedia Britannica describes **Lake Titicaca** as *“the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo)”* and gives its area as about **8,300 sq km**.
Britannica’s entry for **Lake Maracaibo** notes that some sources consider it the **largest natural lake in South America**, with an area of about **13,280 sq km**—larger than Titicaca.
So the unqualified statement that Titicaca is *“the largest lake in South America”* is inaccurate; at minimum it needs a qualifier such as **“largest Andean lake”** or **“largest freshwater lake by volume”** (depending on the intended metric/definition).
2 sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Lake Titicaca
“Titicaca is the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo). It covers some 3,200 square miles (8,300 square km).”
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Lake Maracaibo
“Some sources consider the water body to be the largest natural lake in South America… covering an area of about… 13,280 square km.”