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© South American Pictures/ Britt Dyer

Lake Titicaca 3812m (12.507 ft) high in the Andes mountains, is on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It is the highest naviagble lake in the world. Floating Uros islands of totora reed in the Bay of Puno, Peru, are home to Aymara communities whose homes and boats are also made from totora reed.