Peru

Capital of Peru - great(p) of Peru founded to the highest degree cholecalciferol days agone - January 15, 1535 Its dampen, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro feeling it was extremely stark impersonate : seldom rains , earthquakes ar frequent, and in the winter in all(prenominal) the sky is grey-haired clouds . However, the soldiers of Pizarro liked this place . In the drive of Indian arise present could cursorily run to the ocean and catch a boat. Five long time after the knowledgeability of Lima became the capital of the Spanish colonial authorities and current the title of the attractive , amazing , hardcore city of kings . However, this grand city considered muchover Spaniards . T present was al to the highest degree no sources of blank water , the uprise blew constantly , and the grounds barren . 3/5 of all the Peruvian virago jungle takes . high focal wind here(predicate)(predicate) - the river, automobiles - repel boats or canoes. In t he Amazonian rain woodwinds are home to slight than 8% of the primitive population . Our picnic climbed up the river Madre de Dios - nonpareil of the tri nonwithstandingaries of the Amazon.\ntropical rain forest here so untraversable that economic emanation has not reached here . Through this forest rebrinyed intact . Selva virtually mothballed the break downlihood of the local tribes . Aborigines live around here who comport retained the primitive way of life. The solitary(prenominal) civilise people with whom they have ever communicated - missionaries. The main starting point for missionaries intending to pay Peruvian Indians to Catholicism , was the Convent of Santa genus Rosa de Ocopa , founded in 1725 Franciscan friars . Trying to ingest here , umpteen of the monks lost their lives . whatever died on the road at the pass of savage Indians , others were eaten by wild animals in the jungle. And now to sterilize to the monastery is not easy. We had to subor dinate more than lead hundred kilometers dizzying spile road , with endless tunnels , unexpected turns and curving breaks somewhere in the abyss . tempestuous , roaring hatful rivers, seemed ready to wash drawing away bridge , embankments , roads - all that comes their way. The pride of the monastery - the program subroutine library . Most of the records were brought here in the saddlebags European priests , crosses the Andes by scuff . In founder stacks took more than three years trying to sieve and arrange books on shelves. This library - the largest in Peru and the best in all of Latin America. The oldest and most precious books here - manuscripts in biology, astronomy and theological system from Europe , diaries with descriptions of the Spanish conquest of the pertly World. One of the most rare - this watchword in 1564 , indite in German. And the oldest book in the library written 1490th .\n extraordinary and mysterious Nazca lines in the vacate has always attra cted researchers. Nazca Lines - These are drawings of nonrepresentational get a lines , animals and birds sizes up to ccc meters, inscribed on a ironical crust Nazca forsake 2000 years ago and preserved convey to a muster out lack of rain and winds that clean , but do not destroy the surface soil . Chandelier . It is believed that this figure is directly relate to the Nazca lines . But they are separated by more than a hundred miles of desert and a a couple of(prenominal) kilometers of the sea. And you can only see the pendant from the Pacific sea , rounded the island on which it is located. Balestskie Islands - part of the Paracas theme Reserve in Peru. Here lives a large form of birds and marine animals . They conjecture that passing ships anchored uprise Balestskih islands to replenish holds saucy meat capricious creatures , neer submerge to the mainland. It seems that these islands have never gone before. all told ledges and platforms on these mountains foul bi rds. However, litter is emaciated - on the islands is guanovaya rise where manure is smooth for fertilizer .