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Peru Tourist Guide
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SOUTHERN PERU:
Puno: Titacaca See
Uros Floating Islands
Amantani Island (Titicaca)
Taquile Island (Titicaca)
Sillustani Gravetumbs
Floating islets of the Uros
The Uros are a pre-Incan people that live on approx. 40 self-fashioned floating man-made islets in Lake Titicaca. The islets themselves are made of totora, cattail and reed. The area of the Uros takes in the biggest part of the National Reserve and reaches from the bay of Puno to the Capachica Peninsula. Once the Uros built their floating islands to escape from the Incas and the Collas who regarded at them as if they were inferior creatures. The totora is the most essential plant for the Uros. While they eat the younger plants they use the older ones as fuel. Of course all the houses, boats and islets are made of this material as well and have to be renewed regularly. Furthermore the small floating islands own a kindergarten, a primary school and even an observation tower.
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