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The lake averages between and feet and m in depth, but the bottom tilts sharply toward the Bolivian shore, reaching its greatest recorded depth of feet m off Isla Soto in the lake's northeast corner.
More that 25 rivers empty their waters into Titicaca; the largest, the Ramis, draining about two-fifths of the entire Titicaca Basin, enters the north-western corner of the lake.
One small river, the Desaguadero, drains the lake at its southern end. This single outlet empties only 5 percent of the lake's excess water; the rest is lost by evaporation under the fierce sun and strong winds of the dry Altiplano. There is evidence off the continuous presence of human population in the lake's area: the monumental remains and both tangible an intangible elements talk about different settings, the land-use and its management through specific and outstanding cultural manifestations.
This evidence shows the constant relation between man and nature since ancient days and during a long period of time that goes from the birth and development of Andean pre-Hispanic societies until our days.
This long process that began approximately around 10 b. The other period comprises from Colonial times in the sixteenth century up to our days. All this process has defined a cultural area where tradition has been preserved showing the permanence of ways of life, of customs and ancestral values. Archeological architectonic building of great singularity in some sites as Pukara, Sillustani, Cutimbo Peruvian side and Tiwanaku and the Isla del Sol Bolivian side are clear evidence of the existence of societies such as Pukara, Tiwanaku, Colla Lupaka and Inca.
The agricultural techniques of pre-Hispanic origin such as the so called waru-waruor or ridges of furrows, the amazing terraces that are to be found in different islands of the lake and the totora reed "floating islands" in the middle of the lake are expressions of remarkable value and evidence of land-use and environmental management. Languages, customs, beliefs and artistic works that remain until our days are evidence of ways of life and of cultural values of exceptional value that characterized the Uru inhabitants of the lake and the Taquilenos from Taquile Island, who are organized in a very strong community and whose textile art is one of the fundamental expressions that has been influenced by the textile art of the ancient Paracas, Nazca, Wari and above all, the Collas, a group of people from the pre-Hispanic Peruvian Andean highland.
Languages, traditions, beliefs and customs are intermingled in different forms of social organization, cycles of social life, feasts and rituals, music and dances and in the preservation of sacred places, being the lake the most sacred one, since from its waters emerged the founders of the Inca civilization and the Empire. There are important researches and studies as sources of information for accessing the authenticity of the values attributed to Lake Titicaca. The lake is 8, km2 wide, including both the deep main basin Lago Mayor and the shallow sub-basin Lago Pequeno , and its altitude 3, m is unrivalled among large lakes of this size class in the world.
The distribution of old coastal terraces indicates that a huge body of water reaching as far south as the Uyuni Depression once existed during an inter- glacial period of the Pleistocene, but the lake's size has been greatly reduced due to the increasing aridity of climate and the formation of an effluent stream. The water of Titicaca is now drained via the Rio Desaguadero into Lago Poopo, which, however, has no outlet to the sea.
The whole catchment area on the high plateau of Altiplano remains almost treeless, and is covered by coarse grasses with scattered fields of potato, barley, quinoa Chenopodium quinoa and the other local crops.
The lake is fringed by a swampy zone of totora Scirpus tatora , which is indispensable for the life of inhabitants on the shore, furnishing materials for the famous reed-boats and floating gardens where they grow potatoes. The line between Puno Peru at the northwestern end of the lake and Guaqui Bolivia on the southwestern shore is an important shipping route for Bolivia.
Recent development of cities with manufacturing industry and a few sightseeing sites are going to affect the quality of the lake water to a certain extent.
In Andean belief, Titicaca is the birthplace of the sun. Bright days contrast with bitterly cold nights. Enthralling, deep-blue Lake Titicaca is the unifying, longtime home of highland cultures steeped in the old ways.
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