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A chullpa at Sillustani, near Lake Titicaca, Peru. A chullpa is an ancient Aymara funerary tower originally constructed for a noble person or noble family. Chullpas are found across the Altiplano in Peru and Bolivia. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high. The tombs at Sillustani in Peru are the most famous.
Zepita's location near Lake Titicaca Zepita is a town in the Chucuito Province south of Lake Titicaca in the Puno Region of Peru . [ 1 ] It has a population of 19,884.
As of 2011, about 1,200 Uros lived on an archipelago of 60 artificial islands, [52] clustering in the western corner of the lake near Puno, Titicaca's major Peruvian port town. [53] The islands have become one of Peru's tourist attractions, allowing the Uros to supplement their hunting and fishing by conveying visitors to the islands by ...
The Uru or Uros (Uru: Qhas Qut suñi) are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru. They live on a still-growing group of about 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru-Iruito. The Uru-Iruito still inhabit the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca and the ...
In general the climate is cool and humid to semi-arid and even arid, with mean annual temperatures that vary from 3 °C (37 °F) near the western mountain range to 12 °C (54 °F) near Lake Titicaca; and total annual rainfall that ranges between less than 200 mm (8 in) to the south west to more than 800 mm (31 in) near and over Lake Titicaca ...
Pucará, Puno (Aymara and Quechua: Pukara, which means fortress; Hispanicized spellings Pucará, Pucara, also Pukará) is a town in the Puno Region, Lampa Province, Pucará District, Peru. It is located to the north-west of Lake Titicaca. The ancient archaeological site of Pucará, dated as early as 1,800 BC, is located to the west of the town.
The lake was created by natural seepage from underground aquifers, but the increase in well-drilling started to threaten that supply in the early 2000s. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] To compensate for the loss, and preserve the oasis as a destination for tourists, local business groups began pumping water into the lake in 2015.
Aerial view of Chucuito and Lake Titicaca. Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. Chucuito is a village in the Chucuito District, Puno Province, Peru. It is 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the city of Puno. It sits at 3,875 metres (12,713 ft) above sea level. [1] The population is 7,913. [2]