The Legend of Lake Titicaca

His name is the less peculiar sound in the languages derived from Latin, but its origin is much more distant and mysterious. Lake Titicaca is the second largest lake in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world.

Photography by Phillie Casablanca

Besides being one of the most impressive lakes land and be between two countries Peru and Bolivia, as a large lake that is, has its own legend.

The popular story that people lived happily in its valley, where the land was extremely fertile. Did not lack for nothing and the suffering did not live their heavenly domains. The gods of the mountains, the Apus, protected humans was forbidden and only one thing: they could not climb to the top of the mountains, where the sacred fire burning. (más…)

Located at over 3800 feet, Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world and one of the legendary places in South America. Heir to ancient traditions and myths, surrounded by mountains and dotted with islands, is an invitation to discover the beauty and mystery of the Bolivian highlands.

A mirror of open water in the highlands, where altitude breath away, keeps the secret of the origin of the Inca empire, the source of a culture that continues to cast its light, after years of darkness, on the civilization that was imposed. Lake Titicaca, in the past revered by the Incas and today considered one of the purest places in the world, is the origin of this rule. That empire was Tahuantinsuyo, who was in this region of Titicaca (now shared between Bolivia and Peru) where natural treasure raising llamas and alpacas, growing quinoa, potato and other agricultural products. (más…)

Wonderful Lago Titicaca is, at an elevation of 3856 metres, Highest Navigable Lake in the World. The lake is so immense that it looks to be an interior sea. It is located in the southern Andes region, also identified Altiplano. This turquoise blue lake used to be the mainly sacred water in the Inca Empire. With a surface area of over 8000 sq. km (3100 sq. miles) it is South America’s biggest lake. In the south, Lake Titicaca creates a normal frontier with Bolivia.

According to the legend, this lake gave origin to the Inca civilisation. Before the Inca, the lake and its islands were sacred for the Aymará Indians, whose civilisation was centred at Tiahuanaco, now a complex of ruins on the Bolivian side of Titicaca but once an admired temple site with sophisticated irrigation techniques.

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