{"id":3530,"date":"2010-06-09T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lake-poopo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:44:55","slug":"lake-poopo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lake-poopo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Poop\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lake-Poopo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27969\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lake-Poopo.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Poopo\" width=\"255\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lake-Poopo.jpg 255w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lake-Poopo-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>L<\/strong><strong>ake<\/strong><strong> Poop\u00f3<\/strong> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bolivia\/\">Bolivian<\/a> Andes is adjacent to a large plain that is claimed, by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/allen-j-m\/\">Jim Allen<\/a>,\u00a0to be the site of Atlantis. Allen has reduced Plato&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dimensions-of-atlantis\/\">dimensions<\/a> by half, as he contends that originally the South Americans counted with a base of twenty rather than our base of ten. With this arbitrary reduction, he found that Plato\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/plain-of-atlantis\/\">plain of Atlantis<\/a> could be identified with the plain to the west of Lake Poop\u00f3. Allen names the exact site of Atlantis itself as Pampa Aullagas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, by 2015, Poop\u00f3, Bolivia&#8217;s second largest lake, had been reduced to a salt pan and Titicaca, the largest, was also in trouble<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <em>New Scientist<\/em>, 12 March, 2016. p8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Poop\u00f3 in the Bolivian Andes is adjacent to a large plain that is claimed, by Jim Allen,\u00a0to be the site of Atlantis. Allen has reduced Plato&#8217;s\u00a0dimensions by half, as he contends that originally the South Americans counted with a base of twenty rather than our base of ten. With this arbitrary reduction, he found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,2259,44,178,1098,1101,1503],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andes","tag-atlantis","tag-bolivia","tag-jim-allen","tag-lake-poopo","tag-lake-titicaca","tag-pampa-aullagas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67206,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/67206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}