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The photographer Martín Chambi was born in 1891 in Coaza, a town like many in the heights of Puno, but he found in Cusco more…

According to the 1993 census, there were 3 177 938 people in Peru – 16.46% of the population – who had Quechua as their mother…

The camelids are originally from North America, from where a group went to Asia by crossing the Bering Strait and gave rise to the Bactrian…

We do not know with certainty what its own speakers called it – perhaps jaqui aru, “language of the people” -, nor do we know…

Previously despised, objects of the curiosity of tourists now, always poor, the Uros are reputed as the oldest inhabitants of Titicaca. Until recently it was…

With corn and potatoes, coca forms the trilogy of plants that had a sacred character in pre-Hispanic times and that continue to play a very…

Not only because of its closeness to heaven, but because of all the gifts that it bestows on its extensive domains, Titicaca was destined to…

Cusco letters. With the sword and with the pen. Known universally as Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, he has become a Symbol of Peru due…

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” By: José Tamayo Herrera. The creation of the symbol The creation of this heraldic…

Known by the common names of qantu, jinllo or Inca flower, the cantuta (Cantua buxifolia) is considered the emblematic flower of the Andes and especially…