One of the most primitive pre-Inca people of Peru. Of ferocious and brutal people's origin, the Inca who considered them as a sub human tribe subjected them. This ethnos lived in a perfect symbiosis with the Titicaca and they lived exclusively in artificial islands that they knitted on the not very deep waters of the lake.

As pure race it was extinguished almost 50 years ago, today their descendants are the miscegenation Uro Aymara; they speak the Aymara, and conserve many of their ancestral customs.

The current Uros inhabit the swampy area of the Bay of Chucuito, very near Puno where they coexist in a social-political organization far from the traditional way of a modern civilization.

A family usually builds its housing, hut knitted in totora (rush or cane), with waterproof roofs against the rain, but existing in its interior great humidity for what is frequent that they suffer from rheumatism at short age. Each family also knits these islands and they are held to the bottom of the lake.

Dedicated to the fishing, from crafts knitted in totora, also to the sowing of some tubers in their own islands, and to the elaboration of crafts.

When walking on these islands you should have the caution of not stepping their peculiar gardens, because it is possible to have a bath, that bothers its inhabitants.

In some of the islands are found schools for the children, maybe the only floating schools of the world. The children arrive every morning in their own rafts that they learn to knit from early age.

This town has received the influence of the Catholic religion, and they celebrate its festivities also burying their deaths in mainland.

To visit the islands of the Uros, you should take a craft from the port of Puno, minimum advisable time 4 hours. These crafts carry out a ride by the diverse islands and disembark in some of them to visit their inhabitants and learn something about their life style.