The lake is situated at a height of 3811 meters in the Andes , the highest navigable in the world.
It is the largest lake in South America ,
at least in terms of water volume. Although Maracaibo ,
Venezuela , has a larger
area, is connected to the Caribbean Sea , making
it rather be a bay. Also, is the largest lake in South
America , with an area of 9710
km².
Located in the Plateau Andean Altiplano, surrounded by the
Andes on the border between Peru
and Bolivia , Lake Titicaca has an average depth of between 140 and 180
m, reaching a maximum of 280 m. More than 25 rivers flow into Lake
Titicaca .
The larger of the two pools is called Lago Grande and Lago
Pequeno lowest, but they are also known as Lago and Lago Huinaymarka Chucuito.
Maximum depth of the first is 284 meters and has the little 40 meters. The
average depth is 107 meters.
Located on the border between Peru
and Bolivia , this inland sea
covers an arid plateau located at 3811 meters altitude, surrounded by the peaks
of the Andes mountains. It is the largest
inland body of water on the planet.
For the uninitiated it may seem like any other lake, among
the many pools of water present in the mountains. But things are not so. A
smattering of mystery floating on its surface, a veil covers her legends
islands and shores. According to local traditions, which are lost in the mists
of time, this lake would be the anchor of the primordial gods, descend from
heaven in astral ships, the tomb of treasures fabulous and deeply missing
cities. Even more, they say, the hideout of visitors from space.
Lately, due to changes in temperature, water level decreases
more and more, now the lowest since 1949. The lake has 41 islands of different
sizes, some densely populated. One of the largest is Isla del Sol (IslandCopacabana , Bolivia
of
the Sun), which can be reached by regular flights from
A lot of questions
Geological origins of this lake were flowing waves of ink
and have given rise to many controversial assumptions. "Mystery Lake
Or is somehow the result of a sudden melting Andean
glaciers, 10,000 years ago? Or that of a catastrophic flood talking about local
legends and ancient texts from around the world? It is clear that in the past
the lake was much larger, because its former range in geological sides 60
meters higher than its current level. As evidence, there are also vast harbor
quays discovered mysterious ruins near Tiahuanaco, located 25 kilometers from
the shores of Lake Titicaca . But is it true
story recently discovered ruins on the bottom? What do the legends associated
with the dramatic disappearance of ancient cities?
Gods come from the mists of time
One day, in times unknown, appeared to not know where the
one who created the world, the sun, moon and stars. And there, on an island
sacred Lake Titicaca, later known as the "Sun
Island ", he made the first man
out of clay, as a giant, whose effigies still haunting terrible surroundings of
Tiahuanaco . The creator god named feared and
respected "Viracocha", so named by the Incas, latecomers on the lake.
It also says that the
start and then modeled in mud lake, the first being true: people.
Many natives believe that god Viracocha is the one who
created the world, including the sun, moon and stars, and that after death, the
souls return to origins, in Lake Titicaca, considered the holiest place in the Andes .
But who is this Viracocha that Spanish missionaries
struggled so much to Andean peoples out of memory? Enigmatic to decorate effigy
famous "Gate of the Sun". He is also known as the Kon Tiki Viracocha
and is accompanied by many other deities, both male and female. After he
destroyed four times creation, which he considered an imperfect, terrible
floods and fires, Viracocha eventually managed to create primordial couple
"Manco Capac and Oello Mamma" and now revered by islanders lake.
There are many hypotheses about the origin of Viracocha. But
all agree that it is a god came from elsewhere. Viracocha is often described
having a beard and white skin. It is even said that he left behind a distinct
and some Andean descent living on islands are taller as their neighbors and
have lighter skin. In addition, according to the chronicles of the Inca,
Viracocha's followers, called "aymaras" which were established on the
Island of the Sun, were also called
"people-led" because they could fly.
Palace from the lake
bottom
According to local legend, collected by Spanish chroniclers
from the sixteenth century, the city of "people-led" they are today,
on the bottom. The Indians who live on the islands of Titicaca know that the
path that starts from the shore and sinks in the lake, reaching its bottom,
leading to a huge palace and he sank, and many other ruins. many elders living
in villages on the lake, mostly centenarians, testify that during some terrible
drought, saw the lake waters draining so much that has surfaced an entire city.
for them, the city is the one swallowed "Zapanas" people-flying
kings.
Urban Legend swallowed, and the fabulous treasures which are
said to be hidden somewhere on the bottomLake Titicaca ,
attracted many adventurers eager to get rich, but also some very important
research. The Commander Cousteau undertook a submarine expedition to study the
lake bottom, but apparently not the place to be searched, because did not find
anything. However, he said: "It is possible that such ruins exist, buried
beneath the mud from the lake bottom, which has a thickness of 30-40 meters and
continuously growing due to silt from the mountains".
The fact is that in 2000, a group of archaeologists found
the ruins of an ancient temple in the lake waters, which seems to date back
about 1,000 years. It measures 200 meters long by 50 meters wide. There, they
found evidence of practicing agriculture, a paved road and a wall 800 meters
long. About all they believed were holding Wanaku, a city legendary,
mysterious, currently under water.
Continued research and discovered another team in the summer
of 2013, a large number of artifacts from different historical epochs during
both the Inca and pre-Inca in
"We found about 2,000 objects and fragments" would
declare Belgian director Christophe Delaire Project "Huinaimarca".
His team unearthed over 30 gold items. "There are ceramics that have a
length of between 500-800 years, and artifacts that were 1,500 years old, such
as animal figurines showing" Delaire said.
In search of lost
treasures
In the second half of the twentieth century, there were
several attempts to explore the bottom of Lake Titicaca .
In 1956, Mardoff, a diver financed by a wealthy Bolivian tried to discover the
gold of the Incas from the bottom waters. Target searches represent an
especially huge gold chain of King Huascar, measuring over 200 feet long, which
was sunk in the lake to escape the greed of the Spaniards. But diver sought in
vain, although it evidences local stories, providing concrete details: They say
it was built specifically a huge boat with huge chain was transported to the
middle of the lake. Mardoff sank hundreds of times, but did not find anything. A
normal fact in the opinion of specialists, because if there really Inca gold
should be buried under layers of silt deposited huge lake bottom now. But
Mardoff discovered something not looking for: a giant city, resting 30 meters
deep under water, even the mouth ESCON, masked by some huge algae.
Immense ruins beneath the waters of the lake had been raised
since 1937 by Peruvian archaeologists and sailors sailing on the lake. Other
observations of foreign travelers and amateur divers were added numerous stories
of ordinary Indians to sail on the waters of the lake. They have seen several
times in periods of drought, walls and paved roads silhouetted among green
algae. Bottom of the lake seems to be sprinkled vestiges of ancient
architecture. Legends fishermen say these ruins are haunted by the ghosts of
strange beings that hold them to the bottom on seafarers lost.
Led by Russian scientist Igor Malinowski, a diver named
Argentine Ramon Avellaneda explored the lake waters turn. The expedition was a
success, because he found a paved road that spans several hundred meters
parallel to the coast, and a complex of megalithic walls, which the researchers
were able to film them. A recent exploration undertaken by a researcher
Bolivian Eduardo Pareja, in October 2010 detected a vast architectural
structure, 200 meters long and 40 wide, which could be the remains of a temple
or a palace. Currently, major investments are preparing to study more closely
these ruins are indubitable evidence of the existence of a large city sank
millennia ago.
Flying discs
When Commander Cousteau appeared on the waters of Lake
Titicaca with its famous batiscafuri, islanders began, suddenly, to remember
about suchlike that we have seen over the lake and the Andes .
Indeed, at the time, had seen many objects flying over the region. The Indians
say they saw "disc voladores" Andean sky ...
Being illiterate, it is assumed that they were influenced by
what was written in the newspapers. These repeated occurrences were, indeed,
the subject of the first page of all newspapers age. Some even think ufologi Andes are one of the foundations Visitor favorites come
from space. A Chilean expedition discovered the late 60s two large circular
platforms, paved each with 263 huge stone blocks, weighing 10 tonnes, cut into
lava and adjusted with incredible precision. The expedition had to fight four
days with a snow storm to get to this area, located at 3200 meters altitude, in
front of the volcano Descabezado Grande. But what intrigued him the best tracks
on the expedition were black, radioactive, found on the surface of these areas.
Indian Locals say that these platforms should hide
underground bases where sometimes hear strange noises and see strange lights.
They make a direct link between these platforms and "discos
voladores" flying discs landing and rises like the sun shining on those
platforms. They say that their ancestors frequently telling about these flying
objects that landed even volcanoes. In However, these bases do not appear to be
recent. in the distance, on the mountainside, opening a vast cave, even at 1500
meters altitude. the Indians say that it communicates directly with another
platform located near Titicaca.
Gate of the Sun
"Gate of the Sun" is a huge monolith of andesite
volcanic, weighing over 12 tons, measuring 4 feet on 3. He stands isolated and
alone, not included in any architectural structure, completed without any other
palace or sanctuary, opening simply, to infinity Altiplano region. stone Gate
is crossed by some very strange letters. Some researchers, such as Russia
and Kazantev Jikov, seeing in them a Venusian calendar over 15,000 years old.
in the center is a character frontispiece odd, which is identified by many as
Viracocha, the god of civilizing, who created the first humans on an island of lake Titicaca
Archaeologist Kaufmann Doig believes that under Sun Gate
lies a huge underground hall. Be it a tomb? A sanctuary? Grave robbers that
ravaged the site for several centuries may have already discovered that and
have it emptied of riches. What is known for sure is that there were complex
network of underground sewer and went to the islands sacred lake. Many gold
miners were lost there, some have died and others came out of the maze after
days and days of wandering, half crazy. It is even said that some of these
countless underground lead to some huge rooms and the entire network would
stretch to Cuzco ,
which is 400 kilometers away. Spaniards have blocked most of the entries in
this maze, the few who remained were known only by Indians. Legends transcribed
and commented by Spanish chroniclers speak of huge skulls, exhumed, equipped
with large teeth. Other traditions describe giants with white skin and big red
beard. To be about the Vikings? Jacques from Maya, writer and dowser, claims
that the Vikings were infiltrated by South America
and gave rise to the premium received royal caste. Other archaeologists and
scientists says it's about work Atlanteans, because architectural principles
are the same: the use of enormous blocks of stone for the erection of shrines,
which even today no one knows exactly how they were taken on the spot. Just
happened to Stonehenge, where the temples of Malta ,
the terraces at Baalbek , the sanctuary in Turkey , from
Kobekli Tape, with an age of 12,000 years. So are some temples in Egypt near the
Sphinx, they seem much older than the pyramids built by the pharaohs. Is Tiahuanaco part of the same antediluvian civilization,
forgotten and swallowed up the flood which speak terribly sacred texts?
A basis for the "brothers from space"?
But the newest legends Titicaca lake waters speaks of
existence as a base Venusian land, which drew on the banks of the so-called
"white brotherhood," consisting of high initiates, who left Tibet
after the Chinese coming choosing Titicaca new haven law, to cooperate with
aliens in order to improve human consciousness. Peruvian Luis Fernando Mostajo
appears as spokesman aliens. He says he was first contacted in 1972 by a mentor
of Great Brotherhood, under waters of Lake Titicaca .
there they are a basis of the "brothers from space" come back to
earth with tens of thousands of years to help mankind to gain access to a new
consciousness. Mostajo say it was mandated by aliens as an intermediary between
them and humans. According to the prophecies of 2013 ought to be the great year
that humanity will have a new sense of self, nearest environmental and faith.
We hope that future expeditions to bring to light several
elements in support of either theory wave mysteries so slowly start to unravel.
It is very important for us as a species we are past and the lack of reliable
information from scientifically proven left room for much speculation. The fact
is that on the bottom is the remains of an ancient cilizaĊ£ii that could lead us
to the conclusion that we are the fifth wave of the "Creation".
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