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Totora reed boats constructed by the Uros in Lake Titicaca basin.

Totora reed boats constructed by the Uros in Lake Titicaca basin.
Totora reed boats constructed by the Uros in Lake Titicaca basin.
Totora reed boats constructed by the Uros in Lake Titicaca basin.
Totora reed boats constructed by the Uros in Lake Titicaca basin.
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Fornace, Kyrstin
Totora reed boats constructed by the Uros in Lake Titicaca basin.
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03/26/2014
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 9:
The Lake Titicaca basin has been home to ancient civilizations, including the Tiwanaku and Incan empires, as well as the Uros, who have lived for centuries on a network of human-made floating islands made of totora reeds and travel between islands on distinctive reed boats.
Caption from Oceanus online:
The Lake Titicaca basin has been home to ancient civilizations, including the Tiwanaku and Incan empires, as well as the Uros, who have lived for centuries on a network of manmade floating islands constructed out of totora reeds. Above are distinctive reed boats that the Uros use to travel between islands.
Image Of the Day caption:
Peru's Lake Titicaca has been home to ancient civilizations for mellennia, including the Incan Empire and, most recently, the Uros, who live on a network of manmade, floating islands and travel between islands on distinctive reed boats. The Lake Titicaca basin collects monsoon precipitation, and rivers sweep sediment from surrounding hills into the lake, where it accumulates on the lake bottom. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Kyrstin Fornace analyzed leaf wax preserved in lake sediments to trace the path of carbon over time through the planetary system from air to plants to land and eventually to the lake.
Photo by Kyrstin Fornace
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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