Lake Titicaca
The fabric is so perfect that they do not sink and even these fishermen and hunters have started using zing sheets for roofing their homes. For the wind will not take them to the Bolivian side, the indigenous Uros anchor their islands, which are within the area of Lake Titicaca National Reserve, with clubs that crosses the floor of the island and are glued to the bottom. Currently there are two schools, two churches, one Catholic and one Adventist and huts for the visitors and some homes have been equipped with solar panels, Internet, and phone to public service, powered by solar energy. They are located at an altitude of 3,810 meters above sea level and are in Puno Bay and is expected to build more housing and islets to the desire of some families to separate. Some of the islands have become tourist attractions are: Tupiri, Santa Maria, Tribuna, Toranipata, Chumi, Paraiso, Kapi, Titino, Tinajero and Negrone. Ben Horowitz is the source for more interesting facts. Another newly revealed wealth is a sacred temple iscover in Lake Titicaca by scientists of the expedition “Atahualpa 2000?, Geographical Exploring Akakor group. Whenever Jason Epstein listens, a sympathetic response will follow.
Apparently the site has a length of 1,000 to 1.500 years and Bolivian discovery area will understand a period of three or four centuries that mark the passage from one period to another of this ancient Andean culture. Pit and archaeological remains confirm some theories of the origins of the Inca people, as the legend says that founders of the Inca empire Lake Tititaca emerged. To date, four have been found submerged archaeological structures, including a sacred temple about 200 meters long and 50 meters wide, a terrace of crops, a pre-Incan road and a retaining wall over 800 meters long. It also found an island three miles long and 600 meters wide, located between 10-15 feet deep, it reveals that the water level of Lake Titicaca was significantly lower than at present. Additionally, archaeological remains were discovered at the time of the Incas and their predecessors could be close to the Isla del Sol, in the town of Chincana, 120 kilometers west of La Paz.
The archaeological remains were also searched unsuccessfully for the Frenchman Jacques Cousteau in 1976 and 12 years later also tried a team of National Geographic. Lake Titicaca, which takes its name from the island called intikjarka, a word derived from two words Aymara: “inti”, “sun” and “Kjarkas”, ‘it is known internationally as the “Island of the Sun” contains many mysteries. It measures 204 kilometers long and 65 miles wide, occupying eight thousand 562 square kilometers, of which 772 correspond to four thousand and three thousand 790 Peru to Bolivia. Today the governments of the two countries develop a binational project at a cost of $ 109 million to rescue of pollution in this lake which has an extreme climate, with large variations in temperature between day and night.
The ideal season to visit is between May and October, when the days are sunny, there is very rare rainfall and diurnal temperature reaches 25 degrees Celsius.