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Indigenous people in Pisac, situated in the Sacred Valley of Cusco |
Peru is a country of many contrasts, populated by a variety of ethnicities and cultures formerly agglutinated in what was the great Inca State. Natural wealth has spread over a vast geography of the Andeian mountains, rainforests and coasts facing the Pacific Ocean. However, it has little arable land, water and is distributed in a rugged topography.
But above all, it is home to a population where more than 50.0% are living in poverty.
The city of Cusco (former Inca capital of the state) also presents this contrast, despite being the flagship of national tourism where tourists converge from throughout the world, fabulous investment and international currencies; converge also poor because the profits of tourism leave the country. Profits are centralized in the capital Lima, joins the foregoing, the low profitability of agricultural products, the stagnation of the regional industry
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