About Peru

Peru is an attractive country for the adventure tourism and mainly for Mountain biking, by its steep geography but particularly by its history and rich culture. This country counts with more than one hundred thousand archaeological sites, reason for which the 80% of the receptive tourism is of cultural character.

Peru is in the zone of South America between the equatorial line and the Tropic of Capricorn. Its continental territory, the adjacent islands, a bordering sector of the Pacific Ocean, the subsoil on them and the atmosphere on the same ones, contains an enormous multiplicity of landscapes due to its geographic conditions, which gives a great microclimate diversity as well him, many of which they are possible to be observed in less than 2 hours of route in bicycle. The territory of Peru is determined by the well-known elevation called Cordillera de los Andes.

The Andes initiate their slope in the depths of the sea, but they ascend closely together of the coast until the Huascarán at 6,768 masl. The Andes do not form a constant slope, but that multiple plateaus and deep valleys and tubes separate the mountain range in diverse branches, this added to thousand of kilometers of ways constructed by the Incas through the years and at the present time are very well maintained by the local settlers, will be the delights of any cyclist and turn to Peru propitious territory for mountain bike.  

Currency

The official currency is the Nuevo Sol (S/.), but the circulation of Dollars is common, the type of change at the moment is of approximately 3 Nuevos Soles by 1 Dollar. 

Language

Spanish is the extended language (80.3% as first language), followed of the native languages (19,5%), of which quechua (16,6%) and aymara (2,3%) are spoken.  

Gastronomy

The Peruvian kitchen is considered one of the most varied and original of the world, it has the Guiness record to the greater variety and typical plate diversity in world. Thanks to the pre-Columbian inheritance (preincaica and incaica), amazonian, and African as well as but-cantonesa, Japanese, Italian and Spanish French gastronomy later, reunites a great diversity of mixtures, along with the Creole, in a gastronomy of four continents in a single country, offering an important variety of typical plates of Peruvian cuisine art in constant evolution. It is possible to mention perhaps the most representative plates of Peru are the dish of marinated raw fish - Ceviche.

The Peruvian gastronomy occupies a very outstanding place at world-wide level, arriving to be considered as one of the three great kitchens of the world next to the Chinese and of the French, although in the international aids of gastronomy also competes with the gastronomy of India.