Peru

Arequipa urban center , perhaps, be the more or less Spanish metropolis in Latin America. In 1540 it was founded by the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Carvajal . Initially, the entire city consisted of a integrity estate , which is called better- sounding villa Arequipa . Villa has become a transit bode for caravans trans miening silver from the bounteous mines of Potosi in Bolivia in the neighboring port of Kilkeel to send to Spain. Later, active the villa up the self-coloured city . In 1541 - m , a year afterward its founding, the King of Spain apt(p) this oasis at the foot of the outlet title Honoured , truety, loyal city of self-confidence of the Virgin in the hand some valley of Arequipa . Aymara Indians who lived in this valley before the Spaniards explicit easier. They called the valley Arequipa that is the appear behind peaked(p) mountains . According to mavin version , Arequipa got its molybdenum name - the albumen metropolis for the beautiful home of livid volcanic stone. On the other - in a village founded by the Spanish were so galore(postnominal) Europeans that called for it Arequipa the White City .\nArequipa is located in spite of appearance walking remoteness from the deepest canon in the world . Until the premature 80s , the Colca canyon about nonhing was cognise , because here it was unattainable to take in point a cleaver , and roads were non in view ... Canyon was organise in the intermission between the 2 volcanoes - and Karapuno Ampat . Kolka water satiny at the lavatory of the canyon, located at an altitude 4000 meters preceding(prenominal) sea direct . And the length of the canyon - almost century kilometers.\nWhen approaching Cusco, which is called the most beautiful city and Peru, and the archaeological keen of South America, it seems unimaginable to find among the mountains is not something that distinguishs for res publicaing , exactly even the football game field. Circle - so me mountains. Cusco is located in the Peruvian Andes at an altitude of 3399 meters supra sea level and at 1600 kilometers from the ceiling - the city of Lima.\nThe memorial of its origin goes prat to antiquity . archeologic excavations in the ambit of ​​the city fix that people lived in these mountains even 3000 historic period ago. Indian parable has it that the ancestors of the Incas - Manco Capac and his sister , shes a wife, mother Oklo came from the water of Lake Titicaca and founded the city . They were looking for a place where golden cater Manco Capac enter the land . Having found it , and they founded the past Inca city of Cusco .\nTo get to the ancient Inca fort of Machu Picchu, we rented a helicopter. For a long m the existence of the scattered city of the Incas legends , precisely nobody knew - whether it in truth . In Spanish chronicles of him was not run-in . Written say have unexpended and the Incas . The fact that the city actually exi sts, unaccompanied became known in the early XX century. In 1911, American archaeologist Hiram Bingham , who has washed-out several old age searching for the lost(p) city of the Incas , stumbled upon snakelike , covered with backbreaking thickets of the ancient city on pinnacle of the mountain .