Floating islands of Lake Titicaca will be restructured

In order to improve the cultural experience of visitors to the floating islands of the Uros in Lake Titicaca, at 3810 m.a.s.l., the government has decided to reduce the number of islands from fifty to thirty, where the biggest islands with the largest population will remain on the site.

 

The Uros are native people that live on man-made islands built with totora, a reed plant that grows in Lake Titicaca, which is also used to make their homes and boats. The floating islands are 5 Km west from the city of Puno, around 20 minutes by boat. Most of the Uros natives have moved to the mainland while a few hundred still live at the islands and benefit from the tourism industry.