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Perú
is one of the main touristic destinations with an inmense
variety of landscape, where we can find all climates of the
world. It offers us the opportunity to rediscover its fascinating
and rich historical legacy with hundreds of archeological
ruins disseminated along the wide territory, its traditions
and ancestral customs, and its indigenous communities profoundly
devoted to The Pachamama "The Mother Earth". Thus,
once we have crossed the spectacular Andes with its mountain
tops of over six thousand meters high, Peru enables us to
go from the magic exuberant humidity of the Amazon to the
endless and arid coastal deserts; not being necessary to cross
barriers. Besides its natural diversity, it is always possible
to visit its main archeological places, cultural patrimony
left by successive civilizations that took a leading role
in Peruvian history, from Chavin de Huantar (master culture
of civilization, with its "Cabezas Clavas" and the
mysterious Lanzón, sort of enormous knife), Paracas
(with its well-crafted mantle and amazing trepanned skulls),
Nazca (with its famous and mysterious "Lines of Nazca"
of bio-formed figures), Mochica (with the astonishing ornamentation
based on different people of the elite, recent discovery as
the "Señor de Sipán" and its varied
and well-crafted ceramics), Chimu (with the largest mud City
of the world, Chan Chan), and also the famous Inca Culture
(with the amazing fortress of Machu Picchu). Furthermore,
in Peru the magic sensation of colonial towns, such as the
colorful Trujillo, the mixed raced Cuzco, or the "chaotic"
and at the same time, charming "Lima".
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GEOGRAPHY
With a surface area of 1.285.216 km2, Peru is the third largest
country of the continent. It is located in the equatorial strip
and its bordered are on the North: by Ecuador and Colombia,
on the East by Brazil and Bolivia, on the West: The Pacific
Ocean and on the South by Chile. The Ecological areas are differently
classified, but since these classifications are not our actual
purpose, we will only mention the main ones as the traditional
regions such as the Coast, the highland, and the Amazon.
The Coast, is a wide desert strip
of 2,500 km. approx. parallel to the Pacific Ocean (one of the
most arids deserts of the world), surrounded by colorful oasis
and fertile valleys that forming multiple rivers which descend
along the highest points of the Andes. The peruvian desert with
a maximum of 200 km. wide at the north (Sechura desert) and
a minimum of 40 km. at the south, is the region that concentrates
the most part of the population.
The Highland, rises from 1000
to 6,768 meters (the Huascaran snowcapped mountain), “La
Cordillera de los Andes”, is the largest mountainous chain
of the world. It plays the leading role since it goes all over
the country in two branches, eastern and western, splitting
the last one in another two mountainous branches. One of them
provides life and color to the Cordillera Blanca (Huascaran
National Park), the tallest tropical mountain range of the planet,.
To the south, close to Arequipa, this mountainous chain enables
us to appreciate almost eighty hidden cones of old volcanoes,
as well as deep canons (Cotahuasi and Colca). Throughout all
the highland it is possible to enjoy the large and green valley
of Urubamba (Sacred Valley in Cuzco), and SantaPerú is
one of the main touristic destinations with an inmense variety
of landscape, where we can find all climates of the world. It
offers us the opportunity to rediscover its fascinating and
rich historical legacy with hundreds of archeological ruins
disseminated along the wide territory, its traditions and ancestral
customs, and its indigenous communities profoundly devoted to
The Pachamama "The Mother Earth". Thus, once we have
crossed the spectacular Andes with its mountain tops of over
six thousand meters high, Peru enables us to go from the magic
exuberant humidity of the Amazon to the endless and arid coastal
deserts; not being necessary to cross barriers. Besides its
natural diversity, it is always possible to visit its main archeological
places, cultural patrimony left by successive civilizations
that took a leading role in Peruvian history, from Chavin de
Huantar (master culture of civilization, with its "Cabezas
Clavas" and the mysterious Lanzón, sort of enormous
knife), Paracas (with its well-crafted mantle and amazing trepanned
skulls), Nazca (with its famous and mysterious "Lines of
Nazca" of bio-formed figures), Mochica (with the astonishing
ornamentation based on different people of the elite, recent
discovery as the "Señor de Sipán" and
its varied and well-crafted ceramics), Chimu (with the largest
mud City of the world, Chan Chan), and also the famous Inca
Culture (with the amazing fortress of Machu Picchu). Furthermore,
in Peru the magic sensation of colonial towns, such as the colorful
Trujillo, the mixed raced Cuzco, or the "chaotic"
and at the same time, charming "Lima".
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