Lake Titicaca is located between Bolivia and Peru at an altitude of about 4000 m. It is considered the cradle of the Inca civilization. In this lake the Aymara civilization was born long before Spanish colonialism and Christianity.
An indigenous legend claims that the first inhabitants of the area were called Uros. Nowadays, those who live on the first islands are called that. There are about 120 across the entire lake. The islands are made of floating reeds and have become in recent years a "must" stop for tourists.
For the Andean Indians, the lake is the cradle of the first Incas who emerged from its waters.
The "Island of the Sun" is still a holy place today as it was in the time of the empire.
These myths led the great French explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau in 1969 to transport a small exploration ship, a small imitation of the "Calypso", and for a whole month with his team trying to discover an ancient state according to Inca mythology is located buried at the bottom of the Lake, whose depth in some places reaches 280 m.
Quinoa is mostly grown in the area.
In the Andes mountain range that surrounds Titicaca and at an altitude that often approaches 5000 m we meet Vicuna and Alpaca, the so-called ibex that give the finest, softest and warmest wool fibers in the world from which the softest and most expensive fabrics are made.