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PERU
PERU HAS IT ALL !!!
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Peru is a developing country with an expanding tourism sector. A wide variety of tourist facilities and services are available, with quality varying according to price and location. Read the Department of State Background Notes on Peru for additional information.
Location:Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador Geographic coordinates:10 00 S, 76 00 W Map references:South A south america Area:total: 1,285,220 sq km land: 1.28 million sq km water: 5,220 sq km Area - comparative:slightly smaller than Alaska Land boundaries: total:
5,536 km border countries: Bolivia 900 km, Brazil 1,560 km, Chile 160 km, Colombia 1,496 km (est.), Ecuador ...
PERU HAS IT ALL !!!COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Peru is a developing country with an expanding tourism sector. A wide variety of tourist facilities and services are available, with quality varying according to price and location. Read the Department of State Background Notes on Peru for additional information.
Location:Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador Geographic coordinates:10 00 S, 76 00 W Map references:South A south america Area:total: 1,285,220 sq km land: 1.28 million sq km water: 5,220 sq km Area - comparative:slightly smaller than Alaska Land boundaries: total:
5,536 km border countries: Bolivia 900 km, Brazil 1,560 km, Chile 160 km, Colombia 1,496 km (est.), Ecuador ...
Cusco Peru
Cusco is one of peru's greatest treasures .seat of the ancient inka empire, cusco is home of many of the country's most splendid examples of pre columbian art and archichecture .and many of its buidings rest upon incan foundations. cusco's settings is one of breathtaking beauty: the dramatic snow-capped peaks of the andes rising above the warm colors of the urubamba river valley.
The area is also rich in peru's vibrang living heritage : QUECHUA indians, many of whom maintain essentially the same way of life they have known for thousands of years.
Quechua (Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America. It was already widely spoken across the Central Andes long before the time of the Incas, who established it as the official ...
Cusco is one of peru's greatest treasures .seat of the ancient inka empire, cusco is home of many of the country's most splendid examples of pre columbian art and archichecture .and many of its buidings rest upon incan foundations. cusco's settings is one of breathtaking beauty: the dramatic snow-capped peaks of the andes rising above the warm colors of the urubamba river valley.
The area is also rich in peru's vibrang living heritage : QUECHUA indians, many of whom maintain essentially the same way of life they have known for thousands of years.
Quechua (Runa Simi) is a Native American language of South America. It was already widely spoken across the Central Andes long before the time of the Incas, who established it as the official ...Machupicchu Peru
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old Peak", pronounced [m?t?u pikt?u]) is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level.It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is one of the most familiar symbols of the Inca Empire.
The Incas started building it around AD 1430 but was abandoned as an official ...
Lima Peru
LIMA
is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. Lima is the 4th largest city in Latin America, behind São Paulo, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro. Lima has the third largest Human Development Index in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Today, it is a major beta world city.
Lima was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The City of Kings." It became the capital and most important city in the Spanish ...
LIMA
is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. Lima is the 4th largest city in Latin America, behind São Paulo, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro. Lima has the third largest Human Development Index in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Today, it is a major beta world city.Lima was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The City of Kings." It became the capital and most important city in the Spanish ...
Ica Peru
The city of Ica is the capital of the Ica Region in southern Peru. It was founded in 1563 by Spanish conquistador Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera. As of 2005, it had an estimated population of over 219,856, however, the city suffered extensive damage and loss of life during the 2007 Peru earthquake.
Location
The city is located on the Ica River about 300 km to the south of Lima along the desert coast of southern Peru. Further south along the Pan-American Highway lies the city of Nazca.
History
The city was founded in 1563 by Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera as Villa de Valverde. On August 15, 2007, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Peru, severely affecting Ica.
In 2007, a prehistoric ...
The city of Ica is the capital of the Ica Region in southern Peru. It was founded in 1563 by Spanish conquistador Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera. As of 2005, it had an estimated population of over 219,856, however, the city suffered extensive damage and loss of life during the 2007 Peru earthquake.Location
The city is located on the Ica River about 300 km to the south of Lima along the desert coast of southern Peru. Further south along the Pan-American Highway lies the city of Nazca.
History
The city was founded in 1563 by Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera as Villa de Valverde. On August 15, 2007, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Peru, severely affecting Ica.
In 2007, a prehistoric ...
Paracas Peru
Paracas Peru
The Paracas culture was an important Andean society between approximately 600 BCE and 175 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management. It developed in the Paracas Peninsula, located in what today is the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region. Most of our information about the lives of the Paracas people comes from excavations at the large seaside Paracas necropolis, first investigated by the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello in the 1920s. The necropolis of Wari Kayan consisted of multitudes of large subterranean burial chambers, with an average capacity of about forty mummies. It is suggested that each large chamber might have been owned by a specific family ...
Paracas PeruThe Paracas culture was an important Andean society between approximately 600 BCE and 175 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management. It developed in the Paracas Peninsula, located in what today is the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region. Most of our information about the lives of the Paracas people comes from excavations at the large seaside Paracas necropolis, first investigated by the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello in the 1920s. The necropolis of Wari Kayan consisted of multitudes of large subterranean burial chambers, with an average capacity of about forty mummies. It is suggested that each large chamber might have been owned by a specific family ...
Nazca Peru
Nazca Lines
Coordinates: 14°43′00″S 75°08′00″W / 14.7166667°S 75.1333333°W
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert of Peru. They have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BCE and 700 CE. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, llamas, and lizards.
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Arequipa Peru
Arequipa Peru.
Coordinates: 16°23′55.76″S 71°32′12.79″W / 16.3988222°S 71.5368861°W
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 904,931 it is the second most populous city of the country. Arequipa lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude of 2,380 meters (7,800 feet) above sea level; the snow-capped volcano El Misti overlooks the city.
The city has many colonial-era Spanish buildings built of sillar, a pearly white volcanic rock, from which it gets the nickname La Ciudad Blanca ("The White City").[1] Reportedly, it first acquired this nickname in the colonial era, because most of its inhabitants were Creole of peninsular ...
Arequipa Peru.Coordinates: 16°23′55.76″S 71°32′12.79″W / 16.3988222°S 71.5368861°W
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 904,931 it is the second most populous city of the country. Arequipa lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude of 2,380 meters (7,800 feet) above sea level; the snow-capped volcano El Misti overlooks the city.
The city has many colonial-era Spanish buildings built of sillar, a pearly white volcanic rock, from which it gets the nickname La Ciudad Blanca ("The White City").[1] Reportedly, it first acquired this nickname in the colonial era, because most of its inhabitants were Creole of peninsular ...
Colca Canyon Peru
Colca Canyon Peru
Coordinates: 15°35′50″S 71°52′45″W / 15.59722°S 71.87917°W Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. It is located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Arequipa. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States at 4,160 m. However, the canyon's walls are not as vertical as those of the Grand Canyon. The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with towns founded in Spanish Colonial times and formerly inhabited by the Collaguas and the Cabanas. The local people still maintain ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces.
Geography
The Colca River starts high in the Andes at ...
Colca Canyon PeruCoordinates: 15°35′50″S 71°52′45″W / 15.59722°S 71.87917°W Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. It is located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Arequipa. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States at 4,160 m. However, the canyon's walls are not as vertical as those of the Grand Canyon. The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with towns founded in Spanish Colonial times and formerly inhabited by the Collaguas and the Cabanas. The local people still maintain ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces.
Geography
The Colca River starts high in the Andes at ...
Lake Titicaca Peru
Lake Titicaca Peru
View of the Lake from the Bolivian shore.
Coordinates 15°50′11″S 69°20′19″W / 15.836389°S 69.33861°WCoordinates: 15°50′11″S 69°20′19″W / 15.836389°S 69.33861°W
Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,812 m (12,500 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest commercially navigable lakes in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America.[3][4]
Overview
The lake is located at the northern end of the endorheic Altiplano basin high in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. The western part of the lake lies within the Puno ...
Lake Titicaca Peru View of the Lake from the Bolivian shore.
Coordinates 15°50′11″S 69°20′19″W / 15.836389°S 69.33861°WCoordinates: 15°50′11″S 69°20′19″W / 15.836389°S 69.33861°W
Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,812 m (12,500 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest commercially navigable lakes in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America.[3][4]
Overview
The lake is located at the northern end of the endorheic Altiplano basin high in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. The western part of the lake lies within the Puno ...
