The "Floating Islands" are human-made islands constructed by the Uros (or Uru) people from layers of cut totora - a thick, buoyant sedge that grows abundantly in the lake’s shallows. They can ...

(Arturo Arrieta/Courtesy LIGA) The sculpture is made of totora reeds harvested ... a native member of the Uros Chulluni community of the floating islands that surround Lake Titicaca to invoke ...

The "Floating Islands" are human-made islands constructed by the Uros (or Uru) people from layers of cut totora - a thick, buoyant sedge that grows abundantly in the lake's shallows. They can ...