Arequipa_Peru (28 images)

Arequipa is the second city in importance from Peru. Is placed at the south of the country. The farmers use the same fields as their ancestors. Without machines and cultivating very little pieces of earth, mostly sustained by hard hand work, they try to survive with less water than in the past and low rates of their harvest. The mistianos, this is the name they received because the proximity of the Misti volcano, maintain several traditions. Another one is eat cuys, a type of rodent, cooked...
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Arequipa is the second city in importance from Peru. Is placed at the south of the country. The farmers use the same fields as their ancestors. Without machines and cultivating very little pieces of earth, mostly sustained by hard hand work, they try to survive with less water than in the past and low rates of their harvest. The mistianos, this is the name they received because the proximity of the Misti volcano, maintain several traditions. Another one is eat cuys, a type of rodent, cooked with a stone over the animal previously covered with corn.
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