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Arequipa information
Arequipa offers you:
- Sunny weather all year.
- Delicious spicy food.
- Friendly people.
- Huge smoking volcanoes (Misti, Chachani, Picchu Picchu, Ubinas, Ampato, Coropuna), climbing is possible.
- Deep canyons, Colca and Cotahuasi.
- Beautiful colonial city.
- Interesting monuments and mummies.
- petroglyphs of Toro Muerto & Dinosaur footprints
- Andagua town and its 88 small volcanoes.
- Llamas, Alpacas, Vicunas and condors.
- Nice pacific beaches. (Puerto Inca, Camana, Mollendo)
- Trekking, biking, climbing.
"Welcome to the white colonial city of Arequipa"
- Arequipa is located above 2325m. Enjoys a eternal spring, sunny weather almost the whole year. It has temperatures between the 20°C and 24°C during the day and at night it gets cooler.
- The historic centre of this city has been built with white volcanic stone, called "sillar". In this soft stone it is easy to make drawings and it resists earthquakes quite well.
- The gastronomic cuisine of Arequipa is delicious and a little bit spicy. Several typical restaurants are open every day, they also serve international food.
- Arequipa is also called the Rome of Peru because it is a religious conservative town. It calls itself the independent republic.
- Arequipa department produces rice, corn, beans, onions, garlic and potatoes. There are copper mines and a developed industry of alpaca wool.
Department of Arequipa
Important places to visit:
- Chala, Puerto Inca
- Camana, nice coastal town with sandy beaches, great seafood and Chinese food. Don't forget to visit Quilca, a nice small fisher's town. The beaches between Camana and Quilca (about 40 minutes by bus) are beautifull, quiet and sometimes red, because of the many crabs. Other animals, you can find here are: pelicans, vultures, inca sterns, gulls, sea stars, sealions, etc.
- Toro Muerto Petroglyfs
- Lagoons of Mejia, bird watching
- Cotahuasi canyon
- Colca canyon
- Andagua and the volcano valley
Traditions
- Arequipeños love to eat good and a lot of spicy food, drinking chicha de Jora(corn beer)
- Bull fighting
Food and drinks
| Monday, | Chaque | (soup with potatoes, vegetables and meat) |
| Tuesday, | Chairo | (small potatoes, meat, pumpkin, broad beans, wheat) |
| Woensday, | Chochoca | (Peers, lamb meat) |
| Tuesday, | Caldo de Lomos | (white soup, with chicken, rice, dry potatoes) |
| Friday, | Chupe de camarones | (soup of gambas, with potatoes, milk, cheese) |
| Saturday, | Timpusca | |
| Sunday, | Adobo | (spicy soup with onions, chicha and meat of pig) |
****Top Dishes***
- Adobo
- Rocoto relleno
- Pastel de papa
- Chupe de camarones
- Rachi de panza
- Tamales
- Ocopa Arequipena
****Deserts****
- Queso Helado
- Pastel de Choclo
- Alfajores
- Bunuelos
****Drinks****
- Diana
- Chicha de Jora,