Islands Uros floating, islands of reeds of Lake titicaca. Uros community Chulluni
The Uros island is one of the most famous islands of Lake Titicaca, located 6 km from the port of Puno and 3.812 m.a.s.l. is just an amazing Archipelago of 40 islands of totora (kind of Reed that grows in the swamps of South America), inhabited by the Uros, descendants of one of the oldest cultures of the continent. The origin of the Uro people got lost in the labyrinths of history, but it is presumed that they are descended from the Pukinas, one of the oldest communities of America. This floating community men claim to be the owners of the waters of Lake Titicaca.
The floating islands of the uros are actually not precisely Islands, non-floating, or uros who inhabit them. It is in fact constructions of totora that sit in the bed of the Lake, and its inhabitants are Aymara origin - the last uro died in the 1950s.
Current Aymara population possesses the skill to make constructions of totora on Lake Titicaca bedding. Grouped in lathe to the Uros-Chulluni community offer rural tourism that allows the traveler to stay in the Islands and participate in the daily activities of the Communards. To reach them, you must take a boat in the Bay of Puno.
The Reed is a resource renewable and is essential for the life of the Uros, since with it they built their islands. The totora, woven skillfully, is also the ceilings, walls and doors of their homes. With the same material made the main means of transportation between the Islands and the Mainland: the rafts. Another use of the reeds, which is very important, is that when the stems dry use them as firewood to their kitchens, fulfilling the function of fuel. With the advent of tourism, they began to make beautiful crafts of reeds, which sold to help in its economy. They also use it as food, since removed the crust is a white, fibrous, virtually without taste, but also used substance as a complement to their diets.
Altitude. 3,808 meters above sea level. Address: 6 km from the port of Puno
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