Peru ' S Tourism History

You won’t just be surrounded by mysterious ancient ruins but also by stunning views. The location on the high mountains and right next to the rainforests is a unique experience. In fact, Peru has 28 individual

(Credibility) I have personally had the chance to travel on July last year and I was born and raised in Peru and Macchu Picchu is one of the main topics that we speak every year in class.

Peru is located in western South America and it shares borders with Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and the South Pacific Ocean. Peru is about 1.28 million square kilometers. There are three major regions in Peru: a narrow coastal belt, the wide Andean mountains and the Amazon Basin. The coast is mostly a desert, but contains Peru's major cities. The Andes has two main ranges - Cordillera Occidental and Oriental. Oriental includes Peru's highest mountain called Huascaran, it a peaks out at 22,200ft. On the east side is the Amazon Basin, a region of tropical lowland, the water there is carried out by the Maranon and Ucayali rivers.

In the mid-1800s, Peru's economy revolved around natural fertilizer which they called guano. Guano was the gold of the time, it would grow crops in almost any soil. Guano was in high demand, as it was the best fertilizer at the time. It had the perfect combination of nutrients and had plentiful supply of nitrogen and phosphorus. Peru was flourishing but their economy ran solely on guano. Guano was being devoured and it would soon run out. After Peru ran out of guano, the country collapsed.

Peru is much smaller in land mass and population and is unique in its culture. The history of the country is interesting; Peru was once part of the Incan Empire, the largest Native American Empire in the world. It started in Peru and made allies with other tribes to get to its massive size. The empire got about eight to ten million people before Francisco Pizarro came with his conquistadores. Francisco Pizarro started his conquest on 1531 and ended it in 1534. On July 28, 1821, Peru proclaimed its independence, but the Spanish were not finally defeated until 1824. The Mexican Native Americans known as the Aztecs were more cruel when expanding. They would raid other tribes and murder or sell off the people. They got to around 5 million inhabitants before Hernandez Cortez came and destroyed the empire with his army of Spaniards .

1. Before Francisco Pizarro began the Spanish conquest in 1532, the Incan empire dominated the Andes Mountain region. An emperor who demanded strict obedience ruled the land. All business was run by the state, which could draft citizens for its projects. The Inca, terracing the landscape and irrigating the crops, farmed the mountainsides. The Inca were brilliant engineers, whose roadways included bridges. The city of Machu Picchu is an example of their skill with tools like the plumb bob and wooden roller, which they used for in heavy construction. Hundreds of years after their civilization was subdued by the Spanish, the descendants of the once-dominate Incas make up about 50 percent of Peru’s population.

It also encourages civic involvement and pride from the people. The tourist industry helps to provide cultural exchanges between local people and tourists from around the globe. There is also the immense benefit from the encouragement of and preservation of the celebration of local festivals and cultural events that might otherwise be lost over time. The final benefit to the social aspect of Machu Picchu’s community is that the tourism industry helps to facilitate the infrastructure and facilities that are used by tourism (e.g. the railway) and in doing so, it can prove to also benefit the residents as well (e.g. transportation maintenance and support). (Barcelona Field Studies Centre S.L., Machu Picchu: Impact of Tourism)

Peru is rich with minerals, natural resources, and precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, timber, iron ore, coal, potash, phosphate, petroleum, and natural gas. Natural resources have created Peru's infrastructure jump in growth in recent years. Peru has been building roads that go through different types of terrain to include mountains, rainforest and urban areas. Peruvians have updated their railway systems that transport civilians to and from their jobs all throughout the country. Although Peru is wealthy; unfortunately the majority of this income from these natural resources does not make it to the miners and farmers that work long days in order to acquire the resources for global sale. Many of Peru's citizens still live in poverty

When people think of Peru they don’t imagine in depth about the exploration of Peru and how it was cultivated as the country it is to this very day. One person important to the findings of Peru was an explorer and conquistador that go by the name of Francisco Pizarro and his exploration and conquering of Peru. The foundation of the culture, such as traditions, customs, and religion during the findings of the conquest are vital to knowing how this impacted Peru. Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire with only two hundred men compared to the Incas that had thousands but the culture of Peru still survived even after the conquest.

Macchu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th century Inca site that is located in the Cusco region of Peru in South America and is situated 7,970 ft. above sea level (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, pdf ). The site is located on a mountainous region that towers over the HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urubamba_Valley" o "Urubamba Valley"Urubamba Valley, region of the Utramba River, and is 80 kilometers (or 50 miles) northwest of HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusco" o "Cusco"Cusco, the capital of Peru. Built in 1400, the Incas abandoned the city at the time of the Spanish conquest one hundred years later. In the early 20th century, Hiram Bingham, an American archeologist, found and introduced the city to the world, and since then many of the buildings have been reconstructed in order to provide tourists with some idea of the original Peru (Nava,

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Life in Peru is easy. They know a lot about their culture from the past. Citizens love their country. Most of them are Roman Catholic. Peru has more than 31 million citizens, it’s forming into one of the largest countries in South America.

On July 28, 1821, Peru became its own country in Western South America. The capital of Peru is Lima.  Peru is organized into three social classes. The first being the upper class which includes three percent of the population. The second one is the middle class, which consist of the workers that depend on a job, which consist of sixty percent of the population.  The third one is the lower class which is formed by the farmers, which makes up the rest of the population. The people in Peru have a smaller group of white people that control the big lower class, which consist of mostly natives. The middle class of people today have a job such as office workers, military officers, and business owners or workers. The population of Peru is about 31,826,018 people.

Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior.

Peruvians enjoy a free government and one of the richest histories in the world. Peru’s history has legendary beginnings and leads to a revolution. Furthermore, the Peruvian government allows civil liberties and freedoms. Come and go back in time to the Incas and lead through until Peru’s founding government.