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FIGURE 14.36 The Isla de los Uros in Lake Titicaca closely resembles the tethered reed
islands in the Iraqi marshlands.
tourists (Figure 14.37), while islanders increasingly use wooden rowboats or metal-
lic motorboats. The island inhabitants are a mixture of Aymara and Quechua ethnic
groups, the former being the descendants of those originally driven out into the lake
to flee the violence of the latter's Inca forefathers. The primary activity of the island-
ers is fishing and making handicrafts.
Sustenance living only exists for those island archipelagos farthest out into the
lake and thus least visited by day-trippers from Puno. Here, because the huts have
only a single room and thus inhabitants are often outside, it is possible to see islanders