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Location:
Southeast highlands of Peru
Capital:
Cusco (11 200 ft)
Altitude
Minimum:
1745 ft (Pilcopata)
Maximum:
20 944 ft (Ausangate)
Weather
Maximum 71.06 °F
Minimum: 33.8 °F
Terrestrial
– Lima – Arequipa – Cusco: 1 025 miles (26 hours by car).
– Lima – Nasca – Abancay – Cusco: 687 miles (21 hours by car).
– Puno – Cusco: 242 miles (7 hours by car).
– Arequipa – Cusco: 379 miles (10 hours by car).
By air
– Lima – Cusco: 1 hour 15 minutes.
– Arequipa – Cusco: 1 hour.
– Puerto Maldonado – Cusco: 55 minutes.
UNIQUE EXPERIENCES
Activities
– Community tourism.
– Restoration of the Q’eswachaka rope suspension bridge (2nd o 3rd week of june)
– Chonta condor sighting
– Kayaking in the three Suykutambo canyons
– Palccoyo mountain trek
Gastronomy
One of the typical dishes is the Chiriuchu made with a guinea pig, chicken, omelet, lagoon seaweed, fish roe, sausage, jerky, roasted corn, cheese, fish eggs, jerky, and rocoto.
Also highlights the chicharrón, fried trout, baked guinea pig among others.
Festivals and Events
Carnival (Feb-Mar) / Holy Week (Mar-Apr) / Corpus
Christi (May-Jun) / Inti Raymi (24 Jun) / Santuranticuy (24 Dec)
