The Uros are a pre-Incan people who live on forty-two self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca Puno, Peru and Bolivia. The Uros use bundles of dried totora reeds to make reed boats (balsas mats), and to make the islands themselves.
Lake Titicaca is located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,811m above sea level, making it the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America, (Lake Maracaibo has a larger surface area, but it is disregarded as it is directly connected to the sea).
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