Lake Titicaca, Uros Island, Bamboo House, Peru Stock Photography

The Uru or Uros are an indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia. They live on forty-two self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: Uru-Chipayas, Uru-Muratos and the Uru-Iruitos. The latter are still located on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca and Desaguadero River. The Uru descend from an ancient people that, according to legend, were Pukinas, and who