The Colca Valley, in Arequipa, received between January and October some 124,264 tourists, number that shows a 7% increase regarding the same period last year, sources from the Colca Autonomous Authority (Autocolca) have reported.
Although the percentage of tourist increase is not the expected, the organization said that it is important considering that the global crisis [...]
Polish expedition ‘Colca Condor 2008 & 2009’ found more than 30 waterfalls in their trip through an unexplored stretch in Colca Canyon in Arequipa region, expedition leader Jerzy Yurek Majcherczyk said Friday.
He said that one of these waterfalls was called “Cascada de la Muerte” (The Waterfall of Death), due to the shape and slope, and [...]
Arequipa authorities opened the first stretch of Ayo Huambo road (Ayo-Tingo sector) linking the Valley of Volcanoes in Castilla province and the tourist circuit of Colca Valley located in Caylloma.
Ayo-Canco stretch (Ayo-Tingo sub-sector located in the district of Ayo at 1.830 meters above sea level in the province of Castilla) has a length of 7 [...]
The minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Mercedez Aráoz, will launch Tuesday a campaign to promote the Colca Canyon’s nomination as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
The Colca Canyon together with the Amazon River and Lake Titicaca are among 261 natural attractions from 222 countries that moved to the second phase of [...]
