| AREQUIPA |
Located in the skirts of the western mountain range from the Andes to the south of Peru, and to the foot of the volcano Misti, Arequipa (2,350 m.s.n.m), capital of the department of the same name, is a beautiful city, with large houses built in ashlar, a material of petrified volcanic lava, with temples and convents defined by an original architectural style, and with magic countrysides to its surroundings that they offer him a bucolic shade.
Arequipa was founded August of 1540, 15 by Manuel Garci of Carbajal. Their name derives of the Quechua sentence "Arequipai" that means "Yes, stay", and more than a simple coincidence, that of the name is a reality that stays in the time, because in the streets, in the ashlar walls and in people's attitude, a stranger is perceived you/he/she forces, a strange impulse that she invites you to stay in the city.
TOURIST PLACES
Tourist attractiveness exist as the Square of Weapons, Santa Catalina's Convent, the Cloisters of the Company as well as the Church of the same name.
Square of Weapons
Monastery of Santa Catalina
Main Platz of the Monastery
Frontis The Company
Church of The Company
Cloisters of The Company
Arequipa like any city has roads of air, terrestrial and strong communication, the tradition of the old thing mixes with the modern active main cities of the Peru, they are Also two of the deepest canyons in the world: Cotahuasi (county of The Union) and the Colca (county of Caylloma). Also, the wonderful Valley of the Volcanos in Andagua, the beaches of Mollendo, Camaná, and Inca Port. Places impacts that should be visited.
Tradition and Modernity
EATS
In Arequipa, the food has a different and only season in the Peru. The "rocoto relleno" - plate emblematic of the kitchen of the City Blanca - the incredible variety of you suck or the Sunday marinade, they are a group of flavors of mestizo roots that you/they fit perfectly with the nature of the earth of the Misti. Those "picanterías" arequipeñas, generally located in the districts of Sachaca, Tiabaya, Yanahuara and Hill Colorado, they are authentic temples of the flavor that conserve the old culinary tradition of the City Blanca.
And in these temples, he/she is surrendered cult to a great variety of entrances, suck (soups), bottom plates, sweet and drinks, as the cebiche of shrimps, the pork cracklings, the cauchi of cheese, the ocopa, the bramble of paws, the guinea pig chactado, the celebrated one sucks of shrimps or the refreshing jora girl. When proving anyone of these pottages, their palate will feel the own mark and the mestizo and unmistakable flavor of the art culinary arequipeño. Also, you will become - of that there are not doubts - in other faithful of those temples of the called flavor "picanterías."
But if you don't like to prove new flavors, don't worry too much, because in Arequipa restaurants of international food exist, chifas (eaten Chinese) and poultries that you/they offer an excellent service and a good season.
COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Limits: To the northwest with Ica, Ayacucho and Apurímac, to the north with Cusco and Puno, to the east with Moquegua and to the south with the ocean Pacific.
Surface: 63,345 square kilometers.
Population: 999,026 inhabitants.
Capital: Arequipa, to 2,350 meters of altitude, the second more important city of the country is considered.
Counties: (8) Arequipa, Camaná, Caravelí, Castile, Cailloma, Condesuyos, Islay and The Union.
Agricultural production: Cereals, cotton and cañamiel are cultivated.
Mining production: I pray, silver, copper and iron in the mines of Acarí.
Textile production: The nickel fiber and sheep wool applied in articles of dressing is used and decoration.
Product Bruto Intern: 8,987 million new suns (1996).
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