On the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, a peculiar sort of man-made assemblage captures the attention—the villages of the Uros people, constructed out of straw from the totora reeds that grow in those ...

Lake Titicaca is a large freshwater lake in the ... The "Floating Islands" are human-made islands constructed by the Uros (or Uru) people from layers of cut totora - a thick, buoyant sedge that ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the remote Peruvian island of Taquile, in the middle of the great Lake Titicaca, hundreds of people stand in silence ...

Lake Titicaca is a large freshwater lake in the ... The "Floating Islands" are human-made islands constructed by the Uros (or Uru) people from layers of cut totora - a thick, buoyant sedge that ...

From the world’s highest navigable lake, Titicaca, comes a culinary treasure: crispy-skinned fish, cooked in a hot copper pan ...

The people who eke out a living in this inhospitable landscape are just as hardy. Toward the north end of the plateau sits Lake Titicaca, at 12,500 feet, straddling the border between Peru and ...

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Peru is home not only to the most voluminous river, the Amazon, and the world's highest lake, Titicaca, but also to the ...