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    self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru-Iruito. The Uru-Iruito still inhabit the...
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    Uru Uru Lake is a lake in the Oruro Department in Bolivia. It is fed by the Desaguadero River and the Jach'a Jawira. It is situated at an elevation of...
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  • Look up uru in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uru or URU may refer to: Uru dialect of Central Kilimanjaro, a Bantu language of Tanzania Uru language...
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    The Uru–Chipaya family is an indigenous language family of Bolivia. The speakers were originally fishermen on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Lake Poopó...
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  • variety of Uru, Uru of Ch'imu, spoken on the Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca. It is not clear if this was a dialect of Iru Itu or a separate Uru language...
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    Uru, also known as Fat Boat in English, is a type of dhow made in Beypore, Kerala, in the southwestern coast of India. This type of boat has been used...
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  • Uru-Muratos are descendants of an old indigenous community in Bolivia, the Urus or Uros. Because of their place of living, the surroundings of Lake Poopó...
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    loss of food, and an annual migration area. Lakes portal Desertification Ouki Tulare Lake "Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved...
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    brother, Jade Uru, is also a rower. The broadcaster Tui Uru (1926–2013) was their great-aunt. Tui Uru's father, the Reform Party MP Henare Uru, was a great-grandfather...
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    Jade Uru (born 20 October 1987) is a New Zealand rower. He is from Ngāi Tahu tribe and brother of Storm Uru. The broadcaster Tui Uru (1926–2013) was their...
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  • Paz Department and in the Oruro Department. Its waters flow towards Uru Uru Lake. The river originates near the mountain Wisk'achani in the La Paz Department...
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  • Chipaya language (category Uru–Chipaya languages)
    native South American language of the Uru–Chipaya language family. The only other language in the grouping, Uru, is considered by some to be a divergent...
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  • runs down from Waylla Marka (Huayllamarca) to Qhurqhi (Corque) west of Uru Uru Lake. Kimsa Chata is located in the Oruro Department, Carangas Province, Qhurqhi...
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    Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre...
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    Puquina language (category Articles containing Uru-language text)
    Tiwanaku Empire around 1000 CE. Sometimes the term Puquina is used for the Uru language, which is distinctly different. Puquina has been considered an unclassified...
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    Oruro (Spanish pronunciation: [oˈɾuɾo]; Quechua: Uru Uru; Aymara: Ururu) is a department of Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km2 (20,690 sq mi). Its capital...
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  • Tiw (god) (category Uru deities)
    Tiw, in Uru (a pre-Incan people) mythology is a protector of mines, lakes, and rivers. It is closely related to the Aymara deity of Anchanchu, a terrible...
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    Aymaras overran and displaced the Uru, an older population from the Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopó regions. The Uru lived in this area as recently as the...
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    of prehistoric Britain and Ireland, and the traditional floating Uru islands of Lake Titicaca in South America. Notable early artificial islands include...
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  • 3DU.OBJ b-oti suru 2SG-see 3DU.OBJ 'Look at them (two).' (2) uru 3DU u-minohi 3DU-sit uru u-minohi 3DU 3DU-sit 'They sit.' Ambai at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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  • Murato language (category Uru–Chipaya languages)
    the Uros of Lake Poopo in Bolivia (Adelaar 2004). The Murato have shifted to Aymara, but preserve some Uru vocabulary. Alain Fabre 2005, "Uru-Chipaya",...
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    and 65 km from east to west. The province lies at the Uru Uru Lake, one of the largest lakes of Bolivia. The Asanaki mountain range traverses the province...
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    2000 years to the rituals of the Uru civilization dedicated to the mythological figure Tiw, who protected caves, lakes, and rivers as places of shelter...
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    draining approximately five percent of the lake's flood waters into Lake Uru Uru and Lake Poopó. Its source in the north is very near the Peruvian border. It...
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    much older. An earlier Tamatekapua meeting house stood on Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua. Te Kotahitanga (the Māori parliament) met at Ohinemutu in 1895,...
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    sea level. It has been domesticated by the Uru people for meat and eggs. Peru Andes of Peru Puna Ibis at Lake Titicaca BirdLife International (2016). "Plegadis...
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    Totora (plant) (category Lake Titicaca)
    The Uru people, an indigenous people predating the Inca civilisation, live on Lake Titicaca upon floating islands fashioned from this plant. The Uru people...
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    Hpakant. Both addicts and drug dealers were rounded up, taken to the nearby Uru River, shot and their bodies dumped in the river. Concerns have been expressed...
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    in the northern part of the lake. The "Floating Islands" are small, human-made islands constructed by the Uros (or Uru) people from layers of cut totora...
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    associated with the "terrible ice-man" story. It is also known by locals as "Fool-uru" or "Fuluru", owing to tourists sometimes confusing it with Uluru. The sides...
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