Identifier: islandsoftiticac00band (find matches)
Title: The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914
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Publisher: New York, Hispanic Society of America
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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steep slopes covered with astunted vegetation, and traversed laterally by innumerableterraced garden-beds, or andenes. A trail, rather steep androcky, leads upward to a denuded crest. Along this trail amagnificent panorama gradually unfolds. First of all, onefinds himself looking down on an ancient ruin, the structurecalled Pilco-Kayma, flanked by smaller buildings and byterraces that sweep around folds descending to the beach.The waters of the Lake bathe that beach in long, dark-blueripples; and in the distance rests the Island of Koati withits reddish headland. Above the Promontory of SantiagoHuata bristles Illampu, the crown of the Andes.^Beaching the crest, the panorama becomes more extensiveand more varied. To the right, the buildings of the haciendaof Yumani (B) nestle close to the rounded top of a boldpromontory. Far below the hacienda rise groves of treessurrounding the garden of Yumani and the so-called * Foun-tain of the Incas near the waters edge. Indian houses N X 02 O .a
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THE ISLANDS OF TITICACA AND KOATI 43 dot undulating slopes in the north, slopes that descend ab-ruptly toward the Lake and rise abruptly to the top ofPalla-Kasa (11), one of the two highest summits of theIsland. We cross the crest, and a view spreads out as dif-ferent from the one described as shadow from sunlight.The side from which the trail rises is the sunny side; beyondthe crest the view opens to the southwest and south, awayfrom the sun. The distant horizon is encompassed by themonotonous shore-line of Peru. The main Lake expandslike a sheet of silver beyond the crest of Kakayo-kena, andthe red hump of Condor-o-ua-ua-cha-ue (14). At the footof this long and narrow promontory, that forms the south-western wall of the Island, lies the southern Bay of Kona,scarcely ever ruffled by tempests. From the trail the slopedescends toward this bay in steep grades, terminating innarrow strips of green and divided by grajdsh ledges ofrock down to the waters edge. The trail runs on to thenorth

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