Lake Titicaca is a large body of fresh water in the Altiplano of the Andes, on the border between Peru and Bolivia.

At an altitude of 3800 meters and a maximum depth of 380 meters it is the world's highest commercially navigatable lake. The early steamships that plowed its waters were build in England, then taken apart and in bits and pieces transported by boat to Lima and from there on mulebacks from the Pacific to the lake.

 

Titicaca was sacred to the Inca civilisation. The god Viracocha emerged here to create the sun, the stars and the first people. It is also the birthplace of Manco Capac, the first Inca king.

Titicaca is best known  for the peculiar Uros floating reed islands, nowadays a major tourist attraction.