fertility; the island is home to four Apus, Andean mountaintop deities. People make several offerings to these deities each year, and they offer three coca leaves prior to each activity or trip. God is present throughout the year in the festivities. The two Catholic churches are in Centre and Huayllano; a Seventh-day Adventist church is located in Huayrapata. Infrastructure Taquile has a radio station and is equipped with generators. Islanders have elected to use solar panels to generate energy. Flora Flowers and trees on the Island include Kolle, the tree used to roof the houses and for firewood, the Cantuta flower (the national flower of Peru), the Chukjo (used as detergent) and Muña, used as natural medicines. Coca leaves are not cultivated in Taquile. Gallery See also Iperu, tourist information and assistance Tourism in Peru Bibliography Kusikiy A Child from Taquile, Peru, 2010 Elayne Zorn, 2004. Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth and Culture on an Andean Island, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. External links Munay Taquile, travel agency owned by the people of Taquile Island. Lake islands of Peru Islands of Lake Titicaca Landforms of Puno Region Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity