Arequipa Peru Travel

The arrivals of foreign tourists in the Peruvian department of Arequipa was increased by 13 percent in 2008, registering 180,000 foreign visitors, compared to the 160,000 foreigners that arrived in the “White City” in 2007, said Rocío Cervantes Mansilla, regional manager of Foreign Trade and Tourism.
Cervantes, also said that domestic tourism in this zone presented [...]

Pre-20th-Century History
Evidence of pre-Inca settlement by indigenous peoples from the Lake Titicaca area has led some scholars to believe that the Aymara people first named the city – ari means ‘peak’ and quipa means ‘lying behind’ in Aymara; hence, Arequipa is ‘the place lying behind the peak’ of El Misti. However, another oft-heard legend says [...]