Totora plant



There is a plant that grows up in the Titicaca Lake known as Totora. Sometimes it is two metres high, and peasants cut it. It is generally used to build totora boats, hats, small boats and small figures.
Peasants enter the water to cut it and use donkeys to carry it to their homes.

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