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	Arequipa Peru
		The Andes around Arequipa are characterized by a spectacular geography, with in particular several active volcanoes and vertiginous canyons, among the deepest in the world.
		The road from Arequipa to the volcano passes by the Laguna Salinas, a large salt lagoon located at an altitude of 4300 m (14,200 ft) where a large number of birds as well as lama and alpaca herds gather.
		North of Arequipa, behind Chachani volcano, the highlands are inhabited by a large population of wild vicuñas.
	www.hoteltintin.com /arequipaing.php (1617 words)

	Arequipa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arequipa is a city in southern Peru and the nation's second most-important city.
		Arequipa is served by the Rodriguez Ballon International Airport.
		Arequipa is much subjected to earthquakes: it was almost destroyed by one in 1868, and on 23 June 2001, Arequipa was badly damaged by an earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter scale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arequipa (945 words)

	Arequipa, Peru
		Arequipa, capital city of the state of the same name, proudly preserves today many relics and monuments that remind us of its colonial past, when it was the city with the highest proportion of Spanish population in the whole Viceroyship of Peru.
		Later on, Arequipa was the homeland of Collagua, Cabana and Aruni civilizations, which were incorporated into the Inca Empire toward the middle of the 16th century.
		Arequipa today is the economical heart of Peru's southern region and one of its most important milk producers.
	worldfacts.us /Peru-Arequipa.htm (1183 words)

	Arequipa
		Arequipa also offers an exquisite cuisine, beautiful landscapes of countryside, majestic volcanoes, the Colca Valley, challenges and adventures in Colca Canyon, natural reservations, and the heat of friendly people willing to make the tourist enjoy their visit to Arequipa.
		Arequipa is the second larger city of the country and the most important of the south of Peru, constitutes the main pole of economic development due to their multiple resources and to their irrigation projects that favor mainly to the agriculture and the cattle raising; industry of milk products and leathers.
		The ornamented architecture in the historic centre of Arequipa represents a masterpiece of the creative integration of European and native characteristics, crucial for the cultural expression of the entire region.
	www.go2peru.com /arequipa_travel_guide.htm (565 words)

	Arequipa la Ciudad Blanca del eterno cielo azul, tambien llamada Ciudad Caudillo, es la segunda ciudad del Peru
		In Arequipa's Departament is located the Colca Canyon, the deeper of the world, native land of the Condor.
		Arequipa is also the most important comercial and industry center of the souther Perú;.
		Arequipa, also know as the "city chief" because of the political restlessness of it's people, has near a million residents, and has a lot of hotels to receive the turists, and bring them all kind of transportation and communication facilitys, like any modern city.
	www.aqplink.com /arequipa/arequipa01.html (339 words)

	CIARQ Introduction to the Archaeology of Arequipa Peru
		Churajon dominated the middle elevations of the Tambo and Arequipa Valleys until the arrival of the Incas in Arequipa.
		The economic importance of the Arequipa Valley, with its large expanses of agricultural lands, its location between coast and higher elevations, and its many routes from the coast to the highlands, made this a very attractive area for the Incas.
		Arequipa was part of Kuntisuyo one of the four great regions of Tawantinsuyo, the Inca Empire.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/CIARQ/sequence.html (478 words)

	PeruRail - Exploring the Land of the Incas
		Arequipa, Peru's second largest city and known as 'The White City', was founded in 1540 and is surrounded by spectacular mountains.
		Arequipa is called the Cuidad Blanca (The White City) because the nearby volcanoes, primarily the spectacular Misti, turned the rock, used to build the buildings in the Plaza de Armas, white.
		Three volcanoes dominate the skyline of Arequipa - Misti, Chachani and Pichu Pichua and North of the city lies the spectacular Colca Valley and Canyon, which is one of the deepest in the world and home to the majestic condor.
	www.orient-express.com /web/tper/tper_destination_arequipa.jsp (396 words)

	Tourism in Arequipa - Peru Contact
		Arequipa is a province of great cultural and geographical wealth.
		The city of Arequipa, called "Ciudad Blanca" (white city) for the color of the houses built with sillar (white stone of volcanoes otigin), is a picturesque place that combines the beauty of its green country side with the imposing prescense of volcanoes and snowy mountains.
		Petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, located at 160 kilometers from Arequipa, in the county of Castilla.
	www.perucontact.com /en/conozca/arequipa.php (787 words)

	Hotels in Arequipa - Details, rates and booking - Peru Contact
		Arequipa Casa hotel is located in wide Arequipa city, 10 minutes away walking from Armas Square.
		We are located at three blocks of the main square of Arequipa city, surrounded by the tourist but important centers of interest and of the active business district of the city.
		The Tourist Collahua hotel is located in the town of Yanque 7 km from the town of Chivay the valley of Colca, Yanque conserves the legacy of its ancestors “The Collahuas”.
	www.perucontact.com /Hotels_Arequipas.html (650 words)

	PABLO TOUR - Ecological Travel to Peru
		Arequipa is a region where you can find different mountain chains (cordilleras) like the Volcano Mountain Chain and the Andes and our guides are specially trained in the Peruvian School of High Mountains in the city of Huaraz.
		In the city of Arequipa exist a popular biking tour which is called the “country side en bicicleta”.
		Arequipa has an average annual temperature of 20° (Maximum 24° C and minimum 5° C).
	www.pablotour.com (622 words)

	Arequipa, Peru
		Arequipa's location below the snow capped mountains combined with the unique sillar stone architecture, make it one of the most beautiful cities in Peru.
		For this reason Arequipa is often referred to as the white city.
		Arequipa was founded in the 1500s shortly after the Spanish conquest.
	www.planetware.com /peru/arequipa-per-ar-ar.htm (163 words)

	THE TRAMWAYS OF PERU
		Arequipa is located 1,000 km southeast of Lima, about 100 km inland and 200 km from Peru's borders with Bolivia and Chile.
		Arequipa was the second city in Peru to have a tramway system.
		They were too long for Arequipa's narrow streets, so were shortened: the first and last windows were rebuilt as doors, and the ends were remodeled.
	www.tramz.com /pe/aq/aq00.html (1289 words)

	Arequipa - Tourism
		The cities selected for their inclusion in the List of the World Patrimony, are approved based on their qualities like better examples possible of the cultural patrimony.
		As of November of the year 2000 Arequipa forms part of this select group of cities, and the criteria that the UNESCO has considered for this inclusion, in its own words, are the following ones:
		"The historical center of Arequipa is an example of ornamented architecture, represents a masterpiece of the creative coalition of European and native characteristics.
	www.arequipa-tourism.com /index-en.html (247 words)

	Arequipa travel guide - Wikitravel
		Arequipa is a fairly large, but still beautiful, city located just below the edge of the Peruvian Altiplano.
		It's nicknamed the 'white city', because many of the buildings in the area are built using sillar, a rock coming from some of the many volcanoes that surround the city including the towering El Misti.
		Arequipa feels like a very safe city, and like in most of the other major Peruvian cities there was always a fairly large police presence.
	wikitravel.org /en/Arequipa (1756 words)

	Arequipa Traditional 3 days / 2 nights - Travel Tours in Arequipa, Peru Travel - Peru Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Upon arrival in Arequipa, we are met and transferred to the hotel.
		Known as the “White City”, Arequipa is located in southern Peru at an elevation of approximately 7,500 feet.
		The city of Arequipa is located in the South part of Peru and flanked by three snow-capped volcanoes: Misti (19098 ft – 5821 mt), Chachani (19931 ft – 6075 m) and Picchu Picchu ()177999 ft – 5425 mt).
	www.peru-travel.info /eng/perutoursarequipatraditional.asp (759 words)

	Amazon Adventures
		Dubbed the "white city" for its beautiful buildings made of sillar, a pearly volcanic rock, Arequipa nestles against the foot of the El Misti volcano and is guarded on either side by spectacular peaks.
		Once an important Inca city, modern-day Arequipa has a population of nearly half a million and serves as the commercial center of southern Peru.
		Home to the Universidad de San Augustin, the city hosts a vibrant student and cultural scene.With its fine baroque churches and beautiful colonial buildings, many of which now house art galleries and museums, Arequipa is said to have the best-preserved colonial architecture in Peru, apart from Cuzco.
	www.amazonadventures.com /arequipa.htm (735 words)

	The Inka Adventure. Arequipa The Amazing White City.
		Arequipa is known as the White City because of the white porous volcanic rock (sillar) that was used to build most of its buildings.
		The city is surrounded by mountains and snow capped volcanoes such as Misti (5820 m.) and Chachani (6096 m.).
		Arequipa City lies at 2400 meters above sea level but it has a very pleasant climate, its days are mostly warm and sunny, and its nights are cool.
	www.theinkaadventure.com /English/Arequipa.asp (141 words)

	AREQUIPA
		Arequipa has successfully been implemented in the Linux operation system.
		When a browser with Arequipa support connects to the server and finds the meta-information it can ask the user if she wants to download the document using Arequipa.
		Almesberger, W.: Arequipa: Design and Implementation, which is also an ATM Forum contribution to the December '96 meeting in Vancouver.
	lrcwww.epfl.ch /arequipa (519 words)

	Study, Volunteer, Live in Arequipa Peru
		Arequipa is for more than one reason a great place to live, study and work for a longer period of time.
		Arequipa is also a very centre based city, close to the beach (from January to March), close to the Andes (Colca Canyon), close to Cusco, Puno, Bolivia and Chile.
		Arequipa offers a variety of adventure and culture activities throughout the year (mountain biking, horseback riding, trekking, climbing the volcanoes, etc).
	www.spanishcafeperu.com (503 words)

	Arequipa Tourist Information - A Guide to the City of Arequipa, Peru
		Arequipa is well known for its glistening white buildings made from sillar, a white volcanic rock, which gives the city its nickname 'La Ciudad Blanca' or 'The White City'.
		Arequipa is Peru's second largest city and was founded in 1540.
		Arequipa's Plaza de Armas is one of the most beautiful in Peru.
	www.andeantravelweb.com /peru/destinations/arequipa/index.html (938 words)

	Information Peru Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Countryside: (La Campiña) The agricultural area of the periphery of the city is embodied in beautiful picturesque landscapes, in which numerous towns are located described in "Areas around the City." It is as a great chessboard in different degrees of green and with the Incan system of sowing in "andenerías".
		Areas around the city: Towns of beautiful landscapes and some with beautiful churches and colonial monuments, with magnificent view of the countryside, and towns with medicinal watering places of spring water.
		Arequipa is an excellent destination for three types of tourism, the historical-archaeological, the adventure tourism, and the ecological tourism.
	www.go2peru.com /webapp/ilatintravel/articulo.jsp?cod=199881 (759 words)

	Andrys Basten - Peru photographs: Arequipa Region - Convent
		We're back in the City of Arequipa, called "The White City," built from the white sillar rock tossed out by one of the three volcanos that overlook it.
		The name is also inspired by the fact that the sun shines there every single day, a sunlit city almost lost in the middle of a severe mountain range.
		The City of Arequipa is considered the intellectual capital of modern Peru.
	www.andrys.com /peru5.html (433 words)

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		The Majes-Siguey Irrigation Project is a series of irrigation canals that transport water from several of the region's rivers to this hyperarid zone.
		The "Colca Project" is a nopal (prickly pear) farm near Pampa La Joya outside Arequipa that infests nopal leaves with a natural pest -- cochineal.
		The Colca Valley is a district in the Department of Arequipa, approximately 150 km from the city of Arequipa, where Coyagua descendents continue traditional forms of terraced agriculture on the steep slopes of the Colca Canyon.
	www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu /~imiyares/peru.html (2238 words)

	Arequipa information
		The gastronomic cuisine of Arequipa is delicious and a little bit spicy.
		Arequipa is also called the Rome of Peru because it is a religious conservative town.
		Arequipa department produces rice, corn, beans, onions, garlic and potatoes.
	www.tamboviejo.com /arequipa.html (232 words)

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