Month: April 2022

Q’ESWACHACAThe last Inca bridge Q’ESWACHACA On the Apurímac River, in the Cusco region, at 3,700 m a.s.l. n. m., you can see an important Inca legacy that remains in force after more than six centuries. It is the Q’eswachaka bridge, a spectacular engineering work 30 meters long, made of straw and stone, which is preserved … Read more

CUSCOCusco Historic Capital of Peru HISTORY OF CUSCO Cusco, the historical capital of Peru, founded around the 11th and 12th centuries AD by the Inca Manco Cápac, was the religious and administrative capital of the Inca empire, which encompassed much of what is now Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chili. On March 23, 1534, … Read more

THE UKUKUThe bear-man, devoted dancer, guardian of the snows HISTORY Also called “Pablucha” or “Ukumare”, the Ukuku is a legendary character, the son of a woman and a bear, who communicates with the divinity without forgetting his relationship with the high-altitude glaciers, the source of the water that gives life to the communities. South of … Read more

CHABUCA GRANDAPeruvian singer and composer Biography María Isabel Granda Larco was born on September 3, 1920 in Las Cotabambas Aurarias, a mining settlement located in the district of Progreso, in the province of Grau, in the department of Apurímac. Her father was Eduardo Granda y San Bartolomé, who was a mining engineer, and her mother … Read more

OSCAR ABILESThe best peruvian guitarist ÓSCAR AVILÉS Son of José Avilés Cáceres and Angelina Arcos, Óscar Guillermo Avilés Arcos, the First Guitarist of Peru, was born in Callao on March 24, 1924. His love for Creole music began listening to his father sing and play at meetings with friends. “My father played five musical instruments, … Read more