Mulher Peruana Vela em Ilhas flutuantes Los Uros, Lago Tititcaca - Fotografia de stock

Peruvian woman sailing between Uros floating islands. Uros are a pre-Incan people that live on forty-two self-fashioned floating island in Lake Titicaca Puno, Peru and Bolivia. They form three main groups: Uru-Chipayas, Uru-Muratos and the Uru-Iruitos. The latter are still located on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca and Desaguadero River. The Uros use bundles of dried totora reeds to make reed boats (balsas mats), and to make the islands themselves. The Uros islands at 3810 meters above sea level are just five kilometers west from Puno port.http://bem.2be.pl/IS/peru_380.jpg