The Uros are an original people located in the bay of Puno, whose majority population has settled for centuries on huge reed rafts called “floating islands”, which navigate on the waters of Lake Titicaca; and whose language belongs to the Uru-Chipaya linguistic family.
Adapted to their natural environment, the ancient Uros had as their main activity fishing and hunting birds that inhabit the lake, also developing knowledge and practices related to the management of the reeds that serve them until today for the preparation of the “islands”. floating”, houses and ships of the same material.