Reed Boats

These reed boats are anchored on a marsh island in Lake Titicaca on the border between Peru and Bolivia. The Uros people construct such boats from tight bundles of lightweight reeds.

Victor Englebert/Photo Researchers, Inc.

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Boats and Boatbuilding; Titicaca, Lake

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