Yep, it´s on the shores of Lake Titicacaca in a town of some 6,000 located up in the Andes a 2½hour drive from La Paz. The lake´s main town, an Aymara settlement developed into a colonial town in the 16th century, is also celebrated for its quaintness and its 17th-century basilica Our Lady of Copacabana. But this particular beach isn´t exactly a mecca for swimming and sunbathing, as it´s usually pretty cold hereabouts. Instead, it´s the jumping off point for boat tours to the lake´s famous 40-some "floating islands" of woven reeds in which the Ulloa people live, as well as the Isla del Sol (Isle of the Sun), with several villages, a population of some 800 families, and some 80 Inca ruins mostly from the 15th century.
And why the name, by the way? Nothing to do with Brazil, but rather the Andean god of fertility, Kotahawana´. So there!
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