Perú - Main Destination in South America

Lima:

Lima is the capital of Peru and the repository of many of the finest Inca and pre-Inca treasures.
Lima was founded the 1535 and on as soon as in the short term it became the most important city of South America. It has today more than 8 million inhabitants and receptions in the immigrants of all the parts of the world that has given return him in a mixed racial city. In center historical, the declared cultural patrimony of the humanity of UNESCO.

Cuzco.-

A perfectly preserved 16 th Century Spanish Colonial City at more than 10.000 feets in the Andes.

Cuzco, in the past, constituted the center of the Civilization Inca. It was the capital of the Andean state of the Tahuantinsuyo. According to the legend it was founded by Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo between the XIth and XIIth century.
On March 23 of 1,534 on order of Francisco Pizarro, Cuzco was founded again.

The city of the Cuzco is considered like one of the older alive cities of Suramérica, with an approximated age of 3,000 years. In 1933 in Argentina, Cusco was declared like the city of the “archaeological capital of South America”. In 1978, in Italy, Cusco was named “inheritance cultural of the world”. The 9 of December of 1983, UNESCO declared Cusco like the “Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity”. The Peruvian constitution of 1993 declares Cusco the “Historical Capital of Peru”.

Machu Picchu.-

Inca City lost in the Andes for 300 years and one of the new Seven Wonders of the World!!

Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. Since 1983 the site has been designated as a United Nations Educational World Heritage Site.

All of the construction in Machu Picchu use the classic Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. The space is composed of 140 constructions including temples, sanctuaries, parks and residences.

Inca Trail

One of the top then hikes in the World witch leads to Machu Picchu on an ancient Inca paved walkway visits 11 additional mayor Inca sites on the trail .

Sacred Valley of the Inca's.

The only place the Inca beat the Spanish in battle, achieved by diverting an entire River into the attacking Spanish! Fantastic Inca ruined Temples and Fortresses at Ollayantambo and Pisac in the Sacred Valley.

Puno ( Lake Titicaca)

Puno was host of the Tiahuanaco culture (800 to 1200 A.D.) and in the Aymara town that today is Peru and Bolivia.  Today, the city of Puno (3827 meters) is capital of folklore Peruvian and host of the Celebration of the Virgin of the Candlemas and rests between the borders of the Titicaca.

Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world.. The lake also lodges diverse islands, whose inhabitants have preserved ancestral customs and traditions. The National Reserve of the Titicaca (36,180 hectares) protects extensive totorales and diverse species of flora and fauna.

Arequipa

Arequipa is located between the sea and the mountains in southern Peru. The legend mentions that Arequipa was conquered by the fourth Inca, Mayta Capác and with its army in this zone solicited to have left itself, responding it to the Inca ari qipay, that in the language quechua means that yes we remained.

Amazon Jungle

It is a Peruvian region located in northern Peru, has a region of the mountain and another one of the forest. It limits in the north with Ecuador; to the east with Loreto and San Martin. Its Andean region of the mountain is an asylum for the famous Condor, and with the most species to be seen here.

The archaeological centers lost into the jungle are the testimonial of the antique people who live in the region. The most of Pre-Hispanic Cultures that bloomed in all this area are still a mystery for lack of investigation.

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