These days, dedicated to the memory of the deceased, people often go to church and the cemetery, bringing flowers in the coastal towns and food to share symbolically with the souls "in the mountains. The worship of the dead was widespread and respected in our old pre-Hispanic and part of that tradition, combined with Christian elements were still present.

In the village of La Arena, in Piura, residents attend morning at the Plaza Mayor taking their children with their best clothes. Visit the families who lost a son or nephew in childhood, who find a dead child like him gifts of biscuits, camotillos, cocadas typical sweets and other small bags, finely decorated, to call "angels."

Legend has it that the founders of the Inca Empire, Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, left the sacred waters of Lake Titicaca or Qota Mama and trained men to use the new agricultural techniques and the women in textile uses unpublished. But thousands of years before the children of the highest navigable lake in the world were implementing a series of knowledge in discharging their technological and artistic expressions as signs of a civilization that built its economy on the benefits provided by the Andean Sea. To this is added the lessons learned from the observation of astronomical phenomena, as instructed on the life cycles of nature.
At present, Puno is an important agricultural and ranching region that preserves the legacy of their ancestors, which is manifested especially in the artistic field, in its unique pre-Christian temples and in the variety, color and beauty of their parties, this last reason for which this city stands as the highland capital of Peru and Latin folk. "

The mere mention of the name of this department suggests the mining town of Cerro de Pasco, where the Andean people, make the crudelísimo cold, despite the working conditions and geographic, to more than 4 300 meters above sea level, go to deep and dangerous holes or open pit to extract the underlying metal coveted part of the national economy. But Pasco is not only a great site: high plateaus and lush forests, rivers, lakes and waterfalls are the major components of its varied nature, which houses the National Park and Chemillén Yanachaga-Stone Forest Huayllay. Next to the miners, are also the stoic farmers in the highlands, the cheerful and the settlers of Pozuzo Yanesha Ashaninkas and, with his tireless efforts to tame the Amazon difficult