Puno Peru

Located in the southeast area of Peru, in the vast plateau of Collao, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, is considered the country's lake port and cultural center of the Altiplano, a region of the jungle, the mountains and the coast. Puno is the main border town in southern Peru. Puno is an important mining town and port. Here developed one of the most important cultures of ancient Peru, the Tiahuanaco culture, maximum expression of the ancient Aymara people whose archaeological remains causing great admiration among domestic and foreign tourists.

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Information of Puno City

Puno is also known as the "Silver City" because of its silver mines, the richest in South America at the time. The cityscape is severe, and their homes with gray tin roofs accentuate its austere.

The first inhabitants settled in the Peruvian highlands in the department of Puno, the first big event plateau, Pukina culture, the most powerful and progressive southern Peru. As a result, there developed one of the most important cultures of ancient country, the Tiahuanaco culture.

According to one legend about the founding of the Inca empire, the first Inca, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo companion, emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca, sent by their father the Sun to establish the rule of Tahuantinsuyo, which was divided into four regions, being included in the Puno region Collasuyo, which extended over the plateau of Collao, on what is now Peru and Bolivia.

The farming tradition has remained in the city of Puno whose principal activities continue to be agriculture and livestock with a view to the regional market in the southern Andes.

The city is also considered as the capital of Peruvian folklore, music and dance characterize the people of Puno, which each year during the festivities of the Virgen de la Candelaria show their excitement and enthusiasm. Among the most representative dances of Asillo Wifala highlight, the Carnival of Ichu, Llamerada, Pujllay of Santiago, the random, the Khashua Capachica, the Machu-tusuj, the Kcajelo, the Devil and the Gang Puneña.

Puno has several attractions like the Cathedral, which has a magnificent baroque style building, and lush seventeenth century carved stone facade, blending indigenous and Christian motifs. Built in the old Supay Kancha or frame of the devil, the work was completed on May 25, 1757.

Other major attractions of the city is the "Lake Titicaca." It is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3820m above sea level., With an area of 8560 km ² and a maximum depth of 227 meters and also emphasizes the transparency of its waters. In areas where the depth exceeds 25 meters waters are blue and the shallower is the transparent green color that give aquatic plants.

Lake Titicaca, Peru joins Bolivia and has 41 islands, home to an extraordinary fauna. In the reeds growing along its banks and is the habitat of birds and fish as parihuanas, ducks, guallatas, divers, and fish tiki chulumpi as trout, mackerel, suches, etc.