RAINYSEASON on Lake Titicaca

RAINYSEASON IS COMMING NEXT IN THE ANDEAN WORLD

In October it has rained a little, folks were so glad to see the first precipitations, but it just for some days in the mid of month.Now it´s November all families are planting potatoes, quinoa, barley, maize and so through the Andes with the hope this year 2017 the rains will be better than last time.
Here in Puno region more that 60% of people are farmers. At 12500 feet high surrounding the Sacred Lake Titicaca we grow not just Andean tubers and quinoa but many vegetables as carrots, lettuce and cauliflower in the basins of the lake.

There is a microclimate that maintains the cultivations humid. The tempters fluctuate between 40 and 65 Fahrenheit in summer time from November till April.
Thousands of families in the Andean communities from Colombia, Ecuador, and here in Peru are farmers also.
Many Aymara communities in the southern Andes including Bolivia, some areas of Chile and Argentina depend on agriculture.
We just depend in the forces of the nature -Pachamama- from Ancients times. Much of products are organic.

 Small communities being self-sufficient based on agriculture even when the global climate change´s beating millions of peasants not much in the Andean zone but several areas of the world.

LOVING PUNO

LOVING PUNO`S DAY: 

NOVEMBER 4TH

     

    “Puno la Capital folklórica de America” is turning one anniversary more tomorrow. Located at 12 560 ft. or 3830 masl in beside Lake Titicaca.

Seeing back in time the bay of Puno nearby the Sacred Lake of the Incas was inhabited 2 millenniums B.C. Thus our ancestors, Caluyo people, Uros, Puquinas, Pucaras, Collas, Lupacas, Incas, Spanish Colonial period and today`s Puno. 

  

This celebration`s basically rooted in the Colonial times, September 7-9 of 1668.  when the infamous Spanish viceroy Conde de Lemos established the current Puno`s downtown there is the cathedral. 

  

Puno, generous homeland of our Ancestors; cradle of Quechua and Aymara peoples named also South America`s Folkloric Capital, for us puneños is more than it, it`s land of hard-working men and women from Desaguadero in the border with Bolivia to Juliaca city in the northern area…Puno with its dances and precious treasures mystically protected by our Ancient mountains called Apu Cancharani and Apu Azuguini. 

  

There`re 300k inhabitants Puno city but Puno region has about 1.6 M people, in accordance to the last census. 

We speak Spanish, Aymara and Quechua. 

Puno is the administrative center of its 13 provinces. 

With some challenges and many opportunities in this new century. 

Happy Anniversary loving Puno! 

Jallalla Puno Marca! 

Kausachum Puno Llaqta! 

  

PLACES TO VISIT 

·         Lake Titicaca,  

·         Isla Amantani, 

·          isla Taquili,  

·         Llachon,  

·         Ancient funeral Towers of Sillustani,  

·         Cutimbo, city tour…