Lake Titicaca — Bolivia · Peru

Copacabana - Temple of the Sun

14.5 km
Distance
Copacabana (BO) ↔ Templo del Sol, Isla del Sol (BO)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Copacabana (BO) ↔ Templo del Sol, Isla del Sol (BO): 14.5 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 12 crossings by swimmers from 3 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Rassegna stampa. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.