Hello class my name is Janiyah. Today I wanted to share with you some information about Peru.
What is Peru?
Peru is the third largest country in South America. The first two are Brazil and Argentina. If you didn’t know there are modern cities in Peru. With Peru’s landscapes it makes Peru one of the most biodiverse. If you didn’t know what biodiverse meant it means the variety of life in the world.
What’s in Peru?
What is in Peru is a good question. People move to Peru mostly because they want to see the Andes Mountains. They also want to see Peru’s ancient cultures. The Andes Mountains are running along South America’s western side. The Andes Mountains are among the world’s longest mountain ranges.
What’s it like in Peru?
In Peru the climate
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In the high mountains it’s snowy.
2. In the jungle it’s hot.
3. In the other mountains they are tall and forbidding.
In the mountains the Incan people worship the Gods. On the Eastern side of the Andes lies a jungle that connects with the Amazon river.
Where’s the location of Peru?
Peru is in the west part of South America. Peru covers at least 1,279,996 square kilometers of water. Peru has made itself the twentieth largest nation in the world. The total is 1,285,216 square kilometers. Peru also shares land border with Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil.
What holidays are celebrated in Peru?
Peru celebrates almost the same holidays as you and me. Here are some holidays we celebrate:
1. New Years Day.
2. Maundy Thursday.
3. Good Friday.
4. Labor Day.
5. Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
6. Independence
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Peru has a western style fashion. This western style clothing is woren mostly Lima. They also wear traditional clothing related to their background. In different villages there is a unique style. Indigenous women dress in layers of bright and colorful traditional clothes.
What is the population of Peru?
There are a whole bunch of different people in Peru.
1. Amerindian – 45%
2. Amerindian and white (mixed) – 37%
3. White – 15%
4. Black, Japanese, Chinese – 3%
I chose to do Japanese. The Japanese Peruvians started coming in the 1800s with 790 Japanese people in Peru. In 1897 the two governments agreed on the settlement that Japanese farmers can live on Peru’s coastal regions. After that big agreement over 10,000 Japanese immigrants move to Peru for several decades. When the Japanese people moved to it was awesome because they loved to cook. Foods that they cooked were:
1. Ceviche Nikkei
2. Tiradito
3. Amazon Nikkei
4. Pancayaki
5. Barranquino
There are so much more foods that they make but I just wanted to put a few down.
Interesting Facts
1. Peru is the world’s second largest producer of
The animals that were on the land were found to be basically fruits and vegetables. The Aztec’s and Inca’s seemed to eat only these things which were very healthy and good for their bodies. The Aztec’s and Incas seemed like a very well-devoted tribe to one another.
them. A logical explanation can be granted through the mixture of Peru’s society and the
First of all, one of South America’s greatest geological features is the Andes Mountains. The Andes are a major mountain range in Venezuela. The Andes mountain range is the longest mountain range in the world. To be specific, the mountain range is 4,500 miles long and 500 miles wide (Andes). The Andes stretch along the west coast of South America passing through several countries including Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
Peruvians who lean toward Spanish as their main language choose European clothing over traditional. Peruvian clothing is diverse and shows where people have their roots. Though the clothing is stunning, the people one can meet are also interesting and
...ke a paradise. There are things there that no other country has. For example, the Carnaval de Oruro shows the uniqueness of Bolivia through traditional dancing and costumes. Bolivia is like a South American paradise.
A very important event in Peruvian history is how Peru gained its independence from Spain. It all started with an uprising of Spanish-American landowners and their forces were led by Jose de San Martin of Argentina and Simon Bolivar of Venezuela. Because Peru was the stronghold of the Spanish government in South America, Argentine patriot, General San Martin’s strategy to liberate Peru was to use diplomacy. He sent representatives to Lima urging Viceroy Pazuela that Peru be granted independence, however all negotiations proved unsuccessful. They then launched Peru’s movement toward independence.
This is because Peruvian cuisine is influenced by various cultures including those of the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistadors, and African slaves (lavidacomida.com). In the 1400s the natives from the Inca Empire sustained themselves mostly with corn, potatoes, and aji otherwise known as chili peppers. To this day Peru, also known as “The Potato Capital of the world”, is well known for its potatoes with 4,000 varieties (foodbycountry.com). Then in the 1500s the Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro introduced new foods such as wheat, barley, beans, carrots, onions, chicken pork, and lam. However, the Spanish conquistadores also brought with them many diseases, which led to tons of natives dying and the fall of the Inca Empire. Diseases were not the only thing the Spanish conquistadors brought with them, they also brought many African slaves. This African slaves introduced new ways of cooking such as frying food. Another culture that greatly influenced Peruvian cuisine were he Chinese immigrants that arrived to build railroads in the 1800s (lacidacomida.com). The Chinese introduced ginger, soy sauce, and green onions. In addition, Peruvian cuisine has a lot of diversity due to Peru being divided into three regions, which are the coast, the Andean highlands, and Amazon rainforest. In the coast the climate is dry and seafood and stews are more prominent. In the highlands farming and
...uvian restaurant and find similar ingredients and dishes to Italian, French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese or traditional Incan cuisines. The cuisine of Peru may be skyrocketing today, but the people that cook Peruvian food still keep the traditional recipes and ingredients that are true to Peruvian cuisine.
There are lots of pictures taken at religious festivals and pictures of people in traditional clothes, landscape, animals and so on. Therefore we feel that we are exploring the wide region of Andes like the ancestors of indigenous people. As mentioned above, this exhibition covers the culture
Machu Picchu is a physical symbol of the culture that created it. It is located in the Andes Mountains in Peru, South America, high above the Urubamba River Canyon Cloud Forest. The Incan capital, Cuzco, the closest major city, is forty three miles northwest of this landmark. Machu Picchu is five square miles and eighteen square kilometers in size. This ancient civilization has an altitude of eight thousand feet and is surrounded by towering green mountains.
The Transformation of Peruvian Religion In Peru, there are many cultural attributes that makes the country characteristically unique. One aspect of the country that is an essential element of the country’s history, people, and lifestyles is the religion. Over time, religion in Peru has transformed with factors such the Spanish conquistadors, Christianization, and the combining and mixture of the culture of the indigenous Peruvians and of the Christian religion. The lifestyle of the citizenry of Peru is heavily affected by the religion one follows in Peru, and those lifestyles are what set Peru apart from other countries. In Peru, religion is essential to the culture of Peruvians, and that religion that has been embedded in Peru’s culture has transformed greatly over the centuries.
In conclusion, this research paper was all about the Nazca Lines and the Nazca Indians and also where they were located, how they lived, and why the Nazca Indians created the Nazca Lines. There is also many details about the theories on the Nazca Lines based on how they got there, and how the Nazca Indians created them. There are many more details about the Nazca Indians and what some of the lines form. Also, there are details about how they got water and how they grew the crops and what they ate to survive in the Peru desert for so long.