The Uros Indians

Trip Start Mar 30, 2007
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Trip End Apr 12, 2007


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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

South America´s largest lake and the world´s highest navigable body of water that is109 miles long . Lake Titicaca has long been considered a sacred place among indigenous Andean peoples. The people who live in and around the lake consider themselves descendants of Mama Qota, or Sacred Mother, and they believe that powerful spirits live in the lake´s depths. 

The Uros Indians of Lake Titicaca live on floating islands made by hand from totora reeds that grow in abundance in the shallow waters of the lake.The Uros, who fled to the middle of the lake to escape conflicts with the Collas and Incas, long ago began intermarrying with the Aymara indians, and many have now converted to Catholicism.
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