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50 Bull. Pan Am. Union 591 (1920)
Arequipa, the Second City of Peru

handle is hein.journals/bulpnamu50 and id is 629 raw text is: B U LLETI N OF T11-HE PA.N AMERZICAN UNION VOL. L JUNE, 1920 No. 6 AREQUIPA, THE SECOND CITY OF PER U' . .*. QIPA, the second city of Peru, on account of its agreeable climate, interesting history, and unusual location, is one of the cities worthy of the attention and affection of the inhabitants of the American continents. Situated in the center of a delightful valley, perpetually and joyously green, with a climate of continual spring, where the rigors of winter and summer are never really felt, Arequipa, 7,600 feet above the sea, has all the attractions and desirable conditions of an ideal city, where health is the patrimony of the great majority. In reviewing briefly its historical progress we find the first occupants of the Arequipan valley to have been the cave dwellers in a place near the city known as the Alto de las Calderas, where the hand of prehistoric man, in an epoch not so very distant from the Stone Age, traced enigmatic signs, which were to remain to prove in future ages that he once had occupied the valley. The same spot at a later (late was occupied by wandering hordes passing, without leaving traces, from North America, perhaps from Yucatan, (own the current of the Orinoco in Venezuela and the Ucayali in Peru, to establish themselves on the banks of the rivers of the Peruvian coast. Still later various colonies of the Tiahuanacan branch of the race dominated by the Aymaras established themselves in the same places, adding to the tracings of the earliest caves of primitive man figures which, by their construction, show an intimate relation to the scaled style of Tiahuanacu. When the empire of Tiahuanacu crumbled, the Aymara tribes of the Calderas and the rest of the Arequipan valley declared them- selves independent, augmenting their civilization with reflections of I By Jos6 A. Mendozm del Solar. 591

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