Peru

Part 1 – Flight, Lima Historic Center, Miraflores, Nightlife, to Cuzco

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Visit of / Visite de / Besuch von / Visita de / Chiamata di
Cuzco Tambomachay Pukapukara Q’enqo Sacsahuayman
Cuzco was the capital of Inca Empire. Many believe that the city was planned to be shaped like a puma. The city had two sectors: the urin and hanan, which were further divided to each encompass two of the four provinces, Chinchasuyu (NW), Antisuyu (NE), Cuntisuyu (SW), and Collasuyu (SE). A road led from each of these quarters to the corresponding quarter of the empire. Each local leader was required to build a house in the city and live part of the year in Cuzco, but only in the quarter of Cuzco that corresponded to the quarter of the empire he had territory in. After Pachacuti, when an Inca died his title went to one son and his property was given to a corporation controlled by his other relatives, so each title holder had to build a new house and add new lands to the empire, in order to own any home and the land his family needed to maintain it after his death. Andean Indians still abandon their homes and build new ones when they marry, even if no one remains in the house.
According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state into the vast empire of Tahuantinsuyu. But archaeological evidence points to a slower, more organic growth of the city beginning before Pachacuti. There was however a city plan, and two rivers were channeled around the city.
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DANZA PERU CARNAVAL DE QATQA CUSCO MUSIC AND DANCE FROM PERU Grupo Inca the Peruvian Ensemble
Director Guillermo Bordarampe
peruinca@earthlink.net
Los Angeles, CA
USA”INCA”, the Peruvian Ensemble was founded in 1981 in Los Angeles, for the purpose of researching, preserving and presenting Peru’s rich multi-cultural heritage of ethnic and folkloric music, songs, dance and traditions. INCA performs music and dances form the Andean region (Inca heritage), from the central and northern coasts (Criollo, Hispanic heritage), from the southern coast (Afro-Peruvian, Black heritage), and from the Peruvian Amazon jungle (jungle natives heritage).

Since its onset, “INCA” has gained steadily in artistic excellence and in reputation as one of the west coast’s leading ethnic performing companies. Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, the Redlands Bowl, The Fresno Civic Auditorium, Zion National Park, El Paso’s El Chamizal Ampitheater, Santa Fe’s Greer Garson Theater, Albuquerque’s S.B.C.C., Colorado State University, Colorado College, etc., are true indicators that the company has a feisty following throughout California and the western states. In ‘93-’94 “INCA” performed at Mingus Auditorium in Cottonwood, AZ; at the Luther Burbank Ctr. for the Performing Arts in Santa Rosa, CA; Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo, CA; Fiesta Inn in Mesa, AZ.; in ‘95 “INCA” performed at the Detroit Institute of Art, in Lake Tahoe with the Tahoe Arts Project and at the John Anson Ford Theater. In ‘96 INCA hosted a Peruvian Independence Day Festival at the John Anson Ford Theater, performing with famous Peruvian singer Ms. Edith Barr. INCA also performed with Edith Barr in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, Utah. In February of ‘97 INCA performed and conducted workshops and educational presentations at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and in ‘98 at U.C. Davis.

“INCA” has also received support from the Cultural Affairs Department of the city of Los Angeles, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Community Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the National/State/County Partnership, and various businesses, corporations and individuals in the southern California area.

With the aid of these grants, “INCA” has produced several recordings that contain a cross section of the company’s repertoire. These recordings help the group to preserve some of this ethnic material, which in many cases would be lost otherwise. In December of 1997 “INCA” released “Danzante”. It was sold at various record stores in the Los Angeles area, New York Natural History Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, etc. In 2001 INCA released its latest CD, “Que siga la Farra”, a great collection of Andean songs.

INCA is distinguished among Southamerican ethnic groups because the musicians not only perform music from the mountains of the Andean region, but also from the coast (Hispanic influenced valses, polkas, and Afro-Peruvian rhythms), and from the selva or Peruvian Amazon jungle. They also perform with as many as eight dancers using typical costumes from these various regions.
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is know for spreading the peruvian music and dances in southern ca.thru the u.s. Even though he wasnt peruvian he found the music group “Inca Peruvian Essemble” the most reconized in southern ca. He founded the group in 1980.
www.raicesperuanas.com
Los Angeles, CA
USA

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ANTHONY BURDAIN LIKES PERU AND MACHUPICCHU A LOT !!!! COMO AND VISIT PERU THE LAND OF THE INKAS AND THEN VISITA LIMA THE CAPITAL.

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Slideshow with images from Peru. There are pictures from Lima, Inca’s ruin, Ollantaytambo, Arequipa, Cusco, Titicaca, Machu Pichu. Don’t you think it is a good idea for a different vacation?
The music is “Susurro” Music written by Rodolfo Parada, from Quilapayún group from Chile and played by a peruvian group called Perumanta. You can find a group like this one in all world playing at streets.
It is a great deal to buy a CD from these folkloric pan flute groups.
All these images are taken by Dachalan, downloaded under Creative Commons License
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54945394@N00/

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