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Raised Fields in the Altiplano

Few people are aware that a great nation of Native Americans still live in the heart of South America. The Aymara occupy a rugged, mountain world of soaring, glaciated peaks and forbidding plateaus perched around the shores of Lake Titicaca. They and their ancestors have lived on the rolling, seemingly endless high plateaus of southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia for millennia.

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