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| Puno |
It is located to 3810 meters on the sea level, it is the main coldest city in Peru, he/she has two defined stations of he/she fried and medium-dry. Puno was headquarters of the civilization altiplanica of Titicaca, where you organizes the but urban old center of that called region Pucara, with a monumental architecture, sculpture and valuable ceramic.
The lake Titicaca with its ecosystem that possesses plants, fish and birds has facilitated the development of the cultures Pucaras, Aymaras, Quechua and Auroches, creators of the Andean culture.
It was founded by the viceroy Count of Lemos November 4 of 1688.Durante the XVII century, the indigenous population of the region supports Túpac's rebellion Amaru II; great martyr of the independence of Peru, demanding to put an end to the abuses made by the authorities. The rural tradition has stayed in the region and its main activities continue being the agriculture and the cattle raising. |
| Where to go? |
Puno shows some of its attractiveness, with its lake Titicaca, the navigable but high lake of the world is one of the visited destinations in Peru and South America. In the same city they have to know their Cathedral of the XVIII century, colonial and republican large houses, we recommend him/her to go to the museum Dreyer that allows to know the history of those who inhabit to but of 3810 meters.
The lake Titicaca diverse islands whose inhabitants have preserved ancestral customs and traditions. An example of this is the Auroches that live in floating" "islands, the island Taquile, where its residents show its gear and traditional customs proudly, standing out its textile art, recognized by UNESCO like Patrimony of the Humanity, the island Amantan, we recommend him/her to spend the night in this island because the lodging and foods taken with the Quechua families are an unforgettable vivencia.
To 34 km. of Puno, going for via carrozable Sillustani, place is where he/she is some funeral built enclosures with refined stones, here they kept the mummies of its ancestors the old inhabitants. If of Puno he/she leaves toward Cusco we recommend him/her to use the train, in the itinerary it appreciated beautiful landscapes or also to take the buses that you/they offer amusing trips making a tour in the itinerary until arriving in Cusco. |
| That to Make? |
| To be in Puno means to know the origin of the Andean culture, their people wait them to share her customs, with places of great beauty, in a world of Quechua and aymaras.In Puno he/she can make tourism in different ways, talvez he/she wants to make tourism vivencial, then it is an opportunity to be integrated to the communities of a culture that it has been conserved intact per centuries, think of Amatani an island where he/she stops the time and the tranquility sensitizes to one, or talvez he/she wants to make occult tourism then understands with the spiritual millennial traditions and the big enigmas that even wrap today to a culture captured with the ancestral same wisdom of its ancestors. If he/she chooses to come to Puno in the month of February he/she enjoyed of you lick big manifestation of the art puneño, the whole town of Puno this of since party their employer is worshipped Candlemas' Virgin, for something Puno has the I title of "Capital Folclórica of Peru and America."A walk can also be gone for in its very attractive rafts and made artistically with a material of the area called totora. As you see Puno he/she offers to the different alternative visitor, it will be in world of Quechua and aymaras. |
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