Lake Titicaca hosts floating islands built by people
On Lake Titicaca, the Uros people ingeniously build and live on floating islands made from totora reeds, showcasing centuries of remarkable adaptation and cultural resilience.
On Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake between Peru and Bolivia, the indigenous Uros people live on extraordinary floating islands. These islands are ingeniously crafted from buoyant totora reeds, a plant abundant in the lake. The Uros have maintained this unique way of life for centuries, possibly since pre-Incan times, originally to escape conflicts.
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