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  2. Culture of Peru - Wikipedia

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    Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, located six kilometers south from Trujillo Peruvian architecture is a conjunction of European styles exposed to the influence of indigenous imagery. Two of the most well-known examples of the Early Colonial period are the Cathedral of Cusco and the Church of Santa Clara of Cuzco .

  3. Peruvian Traditions - Wikipedia

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    Hispania 25.2 (May 1942): 158–160. Tanner, Roy L. "The Humour Of Irony And Satire In The Tradiciones Peruanas". Columbia University of Missouri Press, 1986. Tauzin Castellanos, Isabelle. Claves de una coherencia: las "Tradiciones peruanas" de Ricardo Palma. Lima : Universidad Ricardo Palma, 1999. Vargas Ugarte, Rubén. "Don Ricardo Palma y la ...

  4. Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru - Wikipedia

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    This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds.

  5. History of Peru - Wikipedia

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    The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.

  6. National Museum of Peruvian Culture - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] It was designed in Neo-Inca style by architect Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski. [ 4 ] The museum's predecessor, the Institute of Peruvian Art, was created in 1931 by Decree Law No. 7084 [ 5 ] as an institute annexed to the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum , to promote the study of pre-Hispanic art and popular arts. [ 6 ]

  7. National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru

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    The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...

  8. Indigenous peoples of Peru - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, 5,972,606 Peruvians identified themselves as indigenous peoples and formed about 25.75% of the total population of Peru. [2] At the time of the Spanish arrival, the indigenous peoples of the rain forest of the Amazon basin to the east of the Andes were mostly semi-nomadic tribes; they subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering and slash ...

  9. The General History of Peru - Wikipedia

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    Del Busto Duthurburu, José Antonio: La pacificación del Perú. Librería STUDIUM S.A., Lima, 1984. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Historia general del Perú o Segunda parte de los Comentarios Reales. Córdoba, 1617. Sánchez, Luis Alberto: La literatura peruana. Derrotero para una historia cultural del Perú, tomo I. Cuarta edición y definitiva.