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5 unusual facts about Lake Titicaca


Alejandro Mario Yllanes

In 1934, he painted tempera murals on the schoolhouse walls of Warisata, a rural commune on the Bolivian shores of Lake Titicaca.

Beavis

In that same episode, he claims to be from Lake Titicaca (because of the scatological sound of its name), but when asked where it is, he responds with "Nicaragua".

Inca architecture

As a solution, John Hyslop has argued that the Tiahuanaco stonemasonry tradition was preserved in the Lake Titicaca region in sites such as Tanka Tanka, which features walls resembling Inca polygonal masonry.

Janine Pommy Vega

During the early-1970s, Vega lived as a hermit on the Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian-Peruvian border.

Phytolith

Phytolith analyses from Bolivia suggest that several varieties of maize were present in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia almost 1000 years before the Tiwanaku expansion, when it was previously thought to have been introduced in the region.


Aymara language

Most study of the language has focused on either the Aymara spoken on the southern Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca or the Aymara spoken around La Paz.

Schoenoplectus californicus

This is famous for making up the floating islands on which the Uros people of Lake Titicaca dwell, as well as occurring on isolated Easter Island in the Pacific.

Titicaca Orestias

The Titicaca Orestias (Orestias cuvieri), also known by its native name Amanto, is a likely extinct freshwater killifish from the genus Orestias, a group of fish which is endemic to the Lake Titicaca and other Altiplano lakes in the Andes.

Tiwanaku River

It empties into WiƱaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca, north of Guaqui (Waki) near the villages Jawira Pampa and Uma Marka.

Uru language

In 2004 it had 2 remaining native speakers out of an ethnic group of 140 people in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the rest having shifted to Aymara and Spanish.


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