Eating in Peru

Eating in Peru

What do you eat in Peru? Beans, pumpkins, peanuts, corn, avocados and potatoes have been grown in the area of ​​today’s Peru for many centuries. Even back then, the Indians kept guinea pigs to eat. There was fishing on the coasts. These old traditions have been preserved, plus the Spanish influences from the colonial era. […]

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Peru History and Politics

Early cultures in Peru Between 20,000 and 10,000 BC The first people came to what is now Peru. The first hunters and gatherers came here via North and Central America. Then slowly people settled down. Around 4000 BC One began to breed the lama from the wild guanacos. Norte Chico culture (3500-1800 BC) The oldest […]

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Peru Overview

Peru is located in western South America and borders Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador. On the border with Bolivia is Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest situated navigable lake, and in the country is the source of the Amazon River. Capital: Lima Biggest city: Lima State: republic Language: Spanish, Quechua Religion: catholicism Surface: 1 285 […]

Peru Arts and Literature

Peru Arts and Literature

Literature The chroniclers Pedro Cieza de León, Agustín de Zárate and Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa depicted the Spanish conquest of Peru in the 16th century and helped to shape the image of the Incarct. Peru received an excellent master writer in Garcilaso de la Vega early on, nicknamed El Inca. His “Comentarios reales” (1609) and […]

Sharp contrasts characterize the natural conditions in Peru

Geography of Peru

Peru is South America’s third largest country. Traditionally, the landscape is divided into three longitudinal topographic regions: the dry coastal plain in the west, the highlands with the Andes in the middle and tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin in the east. Although the coastal region accounts for only 12 per cent of the total […]

Literature of Peru

Literature of Peru

The first Peruvian author of importance was the chronicle writer El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616). The colonial literature was largely a reflection of the motherland’s spiritual life. Juan de Espinosa Medrano (died in 1688) was a hot supporter of the Spanish Baroque poet Góngora, while the satirist Juan del Valle Caviedes shows himself […]

Architecture in Peru

Architecture in Peru

Incan architecture When the Spaniards invaded Peru, they encountered an Inca culture that also included an architecture of large and small cities, fortifications, roads and more. Much was built of sun-dried clay, while more significant buildings and facilities were characterized by highly developed stone work. The historic center of the ancient Inca capital Cuzco and […]

Music in Peru

Music in Peru

Folk music Bas-reliefs of processions and ceremonies testify that ritual dances at a high artistic level have played an important role in Peru’s ancient civilization. Archaeological finds also document a rich pre-Columbian music scene with conch horns, whistles, horns of various sizes, pan-whistles, bells and rattles of silver, drums and ocharines. In traditional quechua music, Native American flutes, quena, are still […]

Theater in Peru

Art and Theater in Peru

Art in Peru On the art of pre-Columbian times, see Chimú, moche, Tiahuanaco, nazca, and the Inca, as well as illustrations under Native Americans. In the colonial period visual art was almost exclusively related to the sacral. The pervasive changes brought about by the liberation wars of the early 19th century came to the fore […]