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Located on the
border between Bolivia and Peru, Lake Titicaca is rich in ancient Inca
settlements with ruins on the lake’s
bottom (where the remains of a temple were discovered in 2000). The place is
also home to more than 530 aquatic species, including the rare giant frog.
Boats regularly
sail on Isla Del Sol, where you can immerse yourself in the island's tranquil
life and watch the sun rise in the same spot where, according to local
tradition, it first appeared thousands of years ago. You can easily navigate
through this idyllic island, with
signposted trails that lead to sacred ruins in its most remote corners and
finally taste the smoked trout, a local delicacy that is caught with ripe
papaya juice.
The main city
located on Lake Titicaca is Copacabana, from where boats leave for Isla del
Sol. The town has a large 16th-century shrine, the Basilica of Our Lady of
Copacabana, which is the patron saint of Bolivia. Copacabana's religious
celebrations, cultural patrimony, and traditional festivals are well known
throughout Bolivia. The town is built in between Mount Calvario and Mount Niño
Calvario and has approximately 6,000 inhabitants.
There is the belief that the name is derived from the
Aymara kota kahuana, meaning "view of the lake." Nevertheless, the
social scientist Mario Montaño Aragón, found in the "archives of
Indias" in Sevilla - Spain, a completely different history:
"Kotakawana" is the god of the fertility in the ancient Andean
mythology, the equivalent to the classical Greek goddess Afrodit or the Roman
Venus. This god is androgyne and lives in the Titicaca, and his court consists
of criters (male and female) that are represented in the colonial sculptures as
in the Catholic churches they were called "Umantuus", known as
mermaids in the west culture. The fact is that the present Basilica was built
where the main Temple of the Fertility of Kotakawana was once (nowadays there
are small fertility temples along the shores of the lake in Bolivia and Perú).
So that Copacabana has been a Sacred place even before the Spanish conquest.
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