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BRIEF HISTORY THE CITY DE AREQUIPA

Location: coast and mountain (you walk) south of the Peru
Excuse: 63,345 km.
Capital: arequipa
Altitude: minimum 9 msnm. (tip of Chocolate)
Maxim 4919 msnm (mirador of the volcanos - caylloma)
Roads of Access: it files - arequipa 1003 km for the highway Pan-American south (14 hours)
Air: daily flights from the file cities (1 hour)
Cusco (30 minutes) Juliaca (30 minutes) and Tacna (30 minutes)

Of the first inhabitants of the region they have been as testimony some samples of art rupestre that go back to but of 8000 years of antiquity inside the different groups that you/they inhabited Arequipa the collaguas, a town of excellent weavers and possessors of big flocks of German nickels highlighted.
The name of Arequipa is together to an old legend. As one says in an opportunity the Inca Mayta Capac it went with their soldiers by these lands and he/she decided they camp. When giving the order of leaving some of their men they requested to stay him. Then the Inca responded in Quechua: ari quepay that means if you are you ".
August of 1540, 15 on behalf of Francisco Pizarro, García Manuel of Carvajal and almost a hundred of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa. Built to the foot of the Misti, the city was becoming with passing of the time in center of Spanish presence and Creole.
During the Republic, Arequipa was the cradle of revolutionaries political proposals and scenario of confrontations among commanders.

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE
The region Arequipa presents a varied relief. He/she begins in the coastal desert and he/she rises in the Andes reaching great height in the summits of snowy as the Ampato (6288 msnm) and the Chachani (6075 msnm), or of their volcanos, as the Misti (5825 msnm). Arequipa also has two of the Canyons but deep of the earth the Canyon of the Cotahuasi and the Canyon of the Colca.

The city of Arequipa is of semi-arid and temperate climate, with a maximum half temperature of 21,7 c (71,0 f) and a minimum of 6,9 C (44,4 F) the season of rains begins in January and it concludes in March.

TOURIST ACTRATIVOS.
Square of Weapons of the city of Arequipa.
Surrounded by the church cathedral and diverse portals the square of Weapons it presents a beautiful source of brass of three plates crowned with the figure of a soldier of the XVI century. To this character he/she is called the Tuturutu ". That was the one in charge of warning of any novel event according to the history. Around the square three portals can be appreciated made with granite and with brick vaults and lime.

Cathedral of the city of Arequipa.
This considered as one of the first religious monuments of the XVII century. In the city. You builds in ashlar (stone of volcanic origin). With brick vaults, it was destroyed by a fire in 1884 and reconstructed in 1868 by the architect, arequipeño Lucas pobrete. It is from style neoclassicist and the revenues to the temple.

Church and complex of the countryside:
This group this integrated by diverse buildings lifted by the Jesuit as much for ends reliosos as for housing and it forms a representative monument of the religious architecture characteristic of the XVII century (1660) amid the group the temple stands out. the Church of the Countryside was designed in 1573 by Gaspar Baez.

Complex and church of san francisco
The complex understands the Franciscan church, the convent and a well-known smaller temple as of the third Orde. In the church they highlight the refined Baroque decoration with shortened relief and the frontal of silver of more altar.

Monastery of Santa Catalina
Built to harbor the daughters of the families but distinguished of the city with religious vocation, the monastery was inaugurated October of 1580, 2 under the invocation of Santa Catalina of Siena, as a center of absolute closing, and he/she stayed this way up to August 15 1970.

Convent of Recoleta.
Franciscan convent been founded in 1648, opened up to the I publish newly in 1978, it presents different styles that go from the románico to the neo-Gothic one, due to its diverse reconstructions (it finishes it it dates of 1940). it Has four cloisters and eleven atmospheres.

Church and Convent of Sacred Domingo.
Architecturally they characterize to this church the tower of the steeple, their atrium with pedestal esquinado and their impeccable arch under the choir. In the interior imagery pieces and canvases can be appreciated with sacred reasons.

He/she marries of the Moral one
Neighborhood of San Lazaro
House of Goyeneche
Church San Agustin
Church the Merced
He/she marries trsitan of the well
Archaeological museum of the san university Agustín
Archaeological museum of the Catholic university of sacred María of arequipa
Museum Andean sanctuaries of the Catholic university of sacred María
Museum of viceregal art of sacred teresa
Urbanization cheerful forest
Yanahuara mirador: it was built in the XIX century and this conformed by a series of ashlar arches in those that the words of illustrious arequipeños have been recorded.

Sabandia town
Wide andenerías and three volcanos, the misti, the cachano and the pichu pichu, they give mark to the landscape that surrounds this traditional town some of the houses they even conserve characteristic of the viceregal pattern or of the republican of the XIX century.

Attractiveness:

Mill sabandia
The founder's mansion
Cayma district
Volcano Misti: the misti with its 5825 msnm is the guardian image of the city from the high of its summit it is possible to sight the arequipa city, the valley of the one laughed chili and the volcanos chachani and the Pichu Pichu.
Thermal bathrooms of Yura
Sumbay caves - art rupestre
Snowed chachani

COUNTY DE CAYLLOMA

FENCE OF THE COLCA:
It is located in the northeastern end of the region Arequipa. The point but high it is the volcano inactive ampato (6288 msnm) and the but under the Fork of the rivers Colca and Andamayo (970 msnm). The valley of the colca has an extension 100 km long of alone squatter a sector of the basin of the one Colca he/she laughed, understood between the districts of Callalli and Huambo.
In this area 16 towns exist of descending of the ethnoses of the collaguas and cabins. Heirs of a rich cultural tradition.
The valley of the colca is part of the South American tectonic badge and it harbors a volcano in called activity Sabancaya, located in the solid one volcanic of the Hualca Hualca. This valley possesses a great flora diversity and fauna.

Canyon of the Colca.
It is one of those but deep of the planet it reaches 3400 meters in their maximum point in the canco town. He/she has to their right margin the mountain range of the chila (bombaya, serpregina, same, queshihua). AND the hualca hualca, sabancaya and ampato are for the other accompanied side. From a distance the Ubinas the beautiful Coropuna is sighted.

Forest of stone of Imata
Volcano Ampato

COUNTY DE ISLAY
National county of mejia lagoons
It possesses 690,6 hectares of extension and he/she understands different habitats made up of swamps, saline fangales, totorales, mounts and riverside estuary.

COUNTY OF CASTLE
Petroglifos of dead bull
You can arrive leaving the valley of the colca for the Pampas of Sihuas. To arrive directly from Arequipa he/she takes the route toward file and to the corire height (district of Uraca) it owed himself 6 km.
I siege built by a conglomerate of engravings disseminated in an area of 5 km. Most of they show human beings' drawings, animals and plants.

GASTRONIMIA
The kitchen arequipeña is one of those but varied of the Peru. They highlight particularly you suck them of every day of the week and other plates like:
He sucks of shrimps, padded, single rocoto, marinade arequipeño, occupies, notary, pebre, the sango.

FESTIVITIES
Carnavles party in camana February, March (movable)
The chapi virgin's party 1 May
Cotahuasi anniversary 4 May
Anniversary of the arequipa city: August
Party of sacred ursula 21 October

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