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The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Spanish: Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR) of Peru is the ministry in charge of issues pertaining to foreign trade of the Government of Peru and the promotion of Tourism in Peru. As of 3 September 2024, the ministry is headed by Úrsula Desilú León .
Since the 2000s, Tourism in Peru has made up the nation's third largest industry, behind fishing and mining. [2] Tourism is directed towards archaeological monuments, ecotourism in the Peruvian Amazon , cultural tourism in colonial cities, gastronomic tourism, adventure tourism, and beach tourism.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of cities in Peru by population. [1] For metropolitan areas see List ... 20: Tarapoto: San Martín: 144,186 21 ...
"The Great Inka Trail" is an entry exclusive to Peru. [2] "The Sistema Vial Andino/Qhapaq Ñan" is a site also listed by Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador. The movement to include the road system was initiated with Peru's addition of it to the tentative list in 2001. Argentina and Chile joined the movement shortly afterwards.
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean.
The Ministry of Culture (Spanish: Ministerio de Cultura) is the ministry of the Government of Peru in charge of the promotion of Peruvian culture and identity. It was created on 20 July 2010, during the government of Alan García. [1] The inaugural minister was Juan Ossio Acuña after his appointment on 4 September 2010.
The Ministry of Tourism was created on December 24, 1986, in article No. 83 of Law No. 15,851, promulgated that day. It included the national tourism policy; the promotion of tourism industries; the regime, coordination and control of tourism; the promotion of tourism to the country and within it; tourist infrastructure, promotion, regime and registration of tourism service providers.
Trujillo is considered the "Capital of Culture of Peru" [1] for the prominent writers associated with the city [23] such as Cesar Vallejo and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, and because the city is a center for important cultural expressions as the marinera dance, Peruvian paso horses, caballitos de totora, Trujillo's gastronomy, etc.