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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