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CAÑON DEL COLCA AREQUIPA PERU

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By train from Arequipa to Puno in Peru, ascending the Andes. A trip through magnificent scenery with lakes and mountains.

Part of a trip organised through Ffestiniog Travel in October 2001. See my related videos.

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AÑU TARPUY (AREQUIPA)

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KAMILE (AREQUIPA)

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Arequipa is a Peruvian city located in the southwest of the country. It lies at an altitude of 2335 meters and is situated in a fertile valley between the coastal area of the Atacama desert and the foothills of the western Andes. The city is the capital of both the province and the region homonymous.

The metropolitan area of Arequipa is the second largest in Peru, covering an area of about 3,000 km2, as well as the second most visited after Cuzco. Three volcanoes rise off the city, among which is the Misti (5,821 m), which can be seen from anywhere in the city.

At present, Arequipa is considered an important commercial hub in the south of the country. It has two industrial parks, as constituting the “most industrialized city after the Lima-Callao axis, has close commercial ties with Chile, Brazil and Bolivia, is sent by rail to the port of the second-Matarani more traffic after El Callao-[5] and also in the production of wool textiles camelids with export quality. [6]

Arequipa has a varied cuisine, which was declared as “Gourmet Capital of Peru.” [7]

It is known since colonial times as “The White City” by the color of its inhabitants, [8] Today the term is attributed to the prevailing color of the block in its many temples and mansions. [9] In 1868, the town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake, so he had to be rebuilt almost entirely. In town houses and colonial churches in Baroque and Gothic. In 2000, UNESCO declared the Historic Center of Arequipa as “World Cultural Heritage.”

Arequipa is also known as a land of leaders for being the birthplace of prominent men in the political arena, as well as one of the few cities in the cradle of several presidents of the Republic of Peru. It has also seen the birth of famous men in science as Pedro Paulet, the father of modern aviation, and recognized internationally renowned writers like Mario Vargas Llosa. The city is home to the mummified body of a frozen Inca girl was found in a sanctuary of Mount Ampato in 1995 and designated as “the best preserved of the world.”

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AREQUIPA, segunda ciudad por su importancia en el Perú.
Situada al sur-oeste del Perú, es la región de la costa con mayor extención.
Como ciudad Arequipa tiene mucha riqueza artistica, cultural y hermosas construcciones hechas en piedra volcanica “sillar” siendo llamada ciudad Blanca por sus construcciones en sillar, y porque los primeros pobladores de la zona, fueron todos españoles, de piel blanca, siendo así la única ciudad del Perú en ser poblada en su totalidad por españoles.
Arequipa es conocida en el mundo, siendo actualmente incluida dentro de los paquetes turisticos del camino del PISCO y del circuito turistico del sur del Perú.
En la ciudad de Arequipa se contrastan la modernidad con las construcciones del 1540 cuando esta ciudad fué construida.
Zona sismica, no se deja abatir por la naturaleza y construye tambien edificos altos y modernos en exclusivas zonas como Cayma, Yanahuara, Sachaca, Umacollo, Vallecito, Challapampa, conserva aún el encanto de su campiña, la cual la podemos encontrar a menos de 45 minutos en automovil desde el centro de la ciudad.
La catedral de Arequipa, la catedral, cuya fachada es la más hermosa del Perú, presenta 170 columnas y ocupa todo un lado de la plaza de armas de Arequipa, torres con un estilo gotico, y arcos la adornan, se erige como un gran castillo en el centro de la ciudad, dando un gran contraste con las demás iglesias de estilo barroco, cuyas fachadas son muy trabajadas, en la piedra sillar.
Asi tenemos tambien las iglesias de la Compañía de Jesús con una Cupola en la Caplilla sixtina totalmente pintada desde el techo hasta el pavimento.
Arcos, puentes de la epoca, callejuelas, comida tipica, campiña, construcciones modernas, centros comerciales modernos en la zona financiera de Arequipa, Cayma.
Y si eso no les basta, pueden irse a los baños de Yura, o a visitar los cañones más profundos del mundo y ver el volar del condor.
El Colca y el Cotahuasi son los dos cañones más profundos del mundo. Asimismo la reserva de aguada blanca, donde encontramos a las vicuñas en su habitad natural o la laguna de Salinas donde encontramos flamencos y una basta variedad de aves, y si eso no les basta, vayan al valle de los volcanes, en Andagua, y vean una maravilla que solo la encuentran en el mundo en la isla de Java.
El mar se encuentra a solo 1:45 minutos de Arequipa, con hermosas playas, un castillo sobre una roca en Mollendo, nos hace recordar a los españoles. Exclusivos balnearios en Mejia y Camana. Valles donde se produce PISCO y vino en fin AREQUIPA LA QUE FUE CAPITAL DEL PERÚ, DURANTE LA GUERRA DEL PACIFICO.

Les da la bienvenida.

WELCOME TO AREQUIPA– BEM-VINDO A AREQUIPA — BENVENUTO AD AREQUIPA – BENVENUE A AREQUIPA–

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Machu Picchu (del quechua machu, viejo, y picchu cima, es decir, “cima vieja”) es el nombre contemporáneo de las ruinas de una antigua llacta (poblado) inca de piedra (cuyo nombre original habría sido Picchu o Picho [1]) construido a mediados del siglo XV en el promontorio rocoso que une las montañas Machu Picchu y Huayna Picchu en la Provincia de Urubamba, en la Región Cusco, en Perú.

Documentos coloniales [2] sugieren que Machu Picchu habría sido una especie de palacio privado de Pachacutec o Inca Yupanqui (primer emperador inca, 1438-1470). Sin embargo algunas de sus mejores construcciones y el evidente carácter ceremonial de la principal vía de acceso a la ciudad testimonian que ésta fue usada como un santuario religioso [3]. Ambos usos (palacio y santuario) no habrían sido incompatibles. Las investigaciones de las últimas décadas, en cambio, han descartado el supuesto carácter militar de Machu Picchu (por lo que los populares calificativos de “fortaleza” o “ciudadela” han sido superados) [4]

Machu Picchu es considerada al mismo tiempo una obra maestra de la arquitectura y la ingeniería [5]. Está en la lista del Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde 1983. Sus peculiares características arquitectónicas y paisajísticas y el velo de misterio que ha tejido a su alrededor buena parte de la literatura publicada sobre el sitio, lo han convertido en uno de los destinos turísticos más populares del mundo [6] y el principal de Perú, donde es un ícono nacional.

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Arequipa

Archaeological findings indicate the fertile valley in which Arequipa is situated has been occupied back to 5000 — 6000 BCE. In the 15th century, the region, then occupied by Aymara Indians, was conquered by the Inca and served as an important supplier of agrarian products to the Inca Empire. The modern city of Arequipa was founded on 15 August 1540, by Garcí Manuel de Carbajal, an emissary of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. One year later, King Charles V of Spain gave it the rank of ‘city’ and the coat of arms that it still keeps. The arrival of Spanish influence left many relics and colonial architecture, which reminds the visitor of the city’s colonial past, when it was the city with the highest proportion of Spanish population in the whole Viceroyalty of Peru. This led Arequipa to develop a large Peruvian Mestizo population as its demographics changed and grew over the centuries. Since the late 1940’s, however, there has been increasing immigration from the Peruvian sierra, thus changing the demographic character of some parts of the city.
Throughout history Arequipa remained relatively isolated during colonial and early republican times, but that changed in 1870 when a Southern railroad to the coastal port of Tacna was inaugurated, opening trade via the Pacific Ocean. The building and expansion of more roads in the 1930s also led to a direct connection with the Pan-American Highway, strengthening Arequipa’s links to the rest of the Americas. Since then, the city has remained the center of commerce between Lima and all of Southern Peru.
Arequipa served as a bastion of nationalism during Peru’s struggle for independence from Spain in the early 19th century. Later, it served as a rallying point during the War of the Pacific (1879 — 1883) with Chile.
The city has two principal universities — the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, the local state university (founded 1828), and the Universidad Católica de Santa María (founded in 1961), a private institution.
One of Peru’s largest stadiums, Estadio Monumental de la UNSA, is also located in Arequipa and hosted some of the 2004 Copa América soccer games, attracting many tourists as well as locals.As the second largest city in Peru, Arequipa is influenced by both Andalusian and Spanish Colonial ideas and architecture, such as the popular Santa Catalina Monastery, the Goyeneche Palace and the Casa del Moral. Arequipa has many valuable archaeological and touristy resources including the Colca Canyon, one of the deepest in the world and an ideal spot for observing the magnificent Andean Condor (wikipedia)

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Arequipa is the capital of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 1,000,291 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”). The historic centre of Arequipa was named a UNESCO world heritage site in 2000, in recognition of its architecture and historic integrity.
(Wikipedia)

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