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Man� National Park can now claim title of having the highest biodiversity rate in the world. This is added to the park's achievement of claiming the greatest amphibian and reptile diversity back in January 2014. |
According to new figures released Wednesday by the Central Reserve Bank, Peru is likely to report the lowest inflation rate in Latin America this year and in 2015.
Experts claim the Andean nation's inflation has remained at an ideal rate the past few years.
"Inflation this year will remain between 2.9 and three percent, and two percent in 2015," BCR President Julio Velarde noted.
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Peru's announcement of a fresh round of investor meetings has set off speculation that the sovereign may be plotting a return to the international capital markets after a two-year absence.
The country, rated A3/BBB+/BBB+, has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BBVA and Morgan Stanley to arrange meetings in the US and Europe, according to sources close to the situation.
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Foreign direct investments in Latin America fell 23.5% in the first half of 2014 compared with the same period last year due to fewer large corporate acquisitions and a decline in mining investments, a United Nations agency said Thursday.
U.N. Agency, Eclac, Says Significant Part of the Decline Came from Mexico.
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Peru's Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal acknowledged the 20th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP20) in Lima is a great chance for Peru to become more environmental.
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A proposal to construct a modern rail network in order to link northern and central coast regions of Peru has entered the initial phase of consideration by the Committee of Transport and Communications of Congress. The longitudinal rail project, Tren de la Costa (Coastal Train), has already been backed by Proinversi�n, a government promotional and investment agency.
According to Gesti�n , the project will need an investment of US$ 10 billion dollars. The railway would cover no small distance however, as the two routes (Callao to Piura, and Ica to Lurin) would cover a distance of 1,340 kilometers.
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This year, Peru has exported 164,000 tonnes of avocado; an increase of 56% compared to last season.
In Peru, according to ProHass, there are 24,000 hectares planted exclusively with Hass avocado, with a production per hectare of about 13 tonnes. Many of these fields are young, and thus production volumes in the future will considerably increase.
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Almost half of all the Peruvian organic product exports are bananas, making this product is the Peru's main organic product for export. Exports of this product amounted to 88.1 million dollars in 2013.
The main destination for the Peruvian bananas is the Netherlands, followed by the USA and Germany, which are known for having a growing number of consumers of organic products. Most of the bananas shipped abroad are fresh and a very small share is dried.
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The closure of the upcoming fishing season in Peru will have a generally positive effect on the suppliers of other niche omega-3 marine ingredients, sources say. But it is more complex than a mere commodity relationship in which scarcity in one source creates heightened demand in another.
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The oldest-known evidence of humans living at extremely high altitudes has been unearthed in the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists say.
The sites - a rock shelter with traces of Ice Age campfires and rock art, and an open-air workshop with stone tools and fragments - are located nearly 14,700 feet (4,500 meters) above sea level and were occupied roughly 12,000 years ago.
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 Archaeologists working upon the Incahuasi (or Inka Wasi) site recently made an exciting discovery when they came across a carved stone with 13 angles. Peru's Ministry of Culture reports that the stones belong to a hydraulic system. Researchers however are not certain if the stones were used for agriculture or for ritual purposes.
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 The governments of Peru and Belgium today signed a cooperation agreement that will provide scholarships for low-income Peruvian professionals of science and technology at Belgian universities.
The formal ceremony was attended by Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium. They were accompanied by Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, Didier Reynders, and Peru's Foreign Minister, Gonzalo Guti�rrez.
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Lima-born chef Diego Oka travels the world, cooks for the hungry masses and spreads the word about delicious Peruvian food. Not a bad gig. Perhaps you are familiar with the country's famous roast chickens, bright sauces, goat cheese-spiked huancaina sauce and ceviche as far as the eye can see? Peruvian cuisine is recognizably Latin American, with staples like fried plantains and rice and beans, with splashes of the cultural influences from around the globe. Take tiradito for example, a Japanese-Peruvian hybrid that is popping up on menus that recently only sported ceviche, crudo, carpaccio and tartare. A protege of renowned chef Gast�n Acurio, Oka has been cooking this fast-growing cuisine for nearly a decade and currently serves as Executive Chef at La Mar at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami. So don't let the baby face fool you. When we spoke, Oka was gearing up to head the kitchen at the James Beard House for a sold-out dinner.
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 Owner Fernando Chavez worked for more than year to open what he said is the first Peruvian restaurant in Pinellas County. His goal was to bring the dishes of his homeland to an untapped market. "Peruvian food is some of the best in the world. All the dishes in Peru are considered gourmet," the Lima native said. "The rotisserie chicken is so popular in Peru it has its own holiday.
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 Try this recipe. A vegetarian variation on the traditional Peruvian dish, Lomo saltado.
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In Lima's Barranco you can have the worst of times, or you can have the best of times. This is a tale of two districts, but in reality it is a tale of one district with two personalities. Barranco is well documented and in the history of this area of Lima those in the know understand it well. This area has two lives, it has two distinct aberrations that are available to all who are adventurous and like to explore the light and dark sides of life. One of these is visible in the light of day and the other, like the life of a vampire, only can be experienced at night.
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 It's that time of year again: When celebrations for Peru's D�a de la Canci�n Criolla jostle for space alongside the US import of Halloween. But, two parties are better than no parties, right? Unfortunately, November 1 - the bank holiday - falls in a Saturday this year, so there'll be no cheeky day off work, but you'll still get your chance to nurse that hangover.
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 Peru's drug trade was once highly centralized and facilitated by one powerful man: the government's former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos, and his system, are gone, but traffickers still need their political brokers. It has been more than a decade since Montesinos, commonly referred to as President Alberto Fujimori's "Rasputin," received his first sentence in what would grow to be more than 30 convictions for crimes including embezzlement, influence peddling, death squad involvement and bribery. He has also been convicted of orchestrating a 1999 arms deal in which 10,000 assault rifles were sold to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.
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 The possibility that former President Alberto Fujimori, already in prison for several years and in the midst of another trial where he faces additional charges, was suffering from tongue cancer was ruled out this week after medical examinations disproved the statements made by the politician's personal physician and lawyer.
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 Lima, the city where Jorge Gil de Castro was born in 1785, will be the first stop for an exhibition of his portraits of South American liberators Jose de San Mart�n and Simon Bolivar that will travel next year to Argentina and Chile as part of bicentennial independence commemorations. The artist was both "a painter of the old regime and the new republic, and for some people he is the last painter of the colonial era and for others the first republican painter," Museum of Art director and exhibit curator Natalia Majluf told Efe.
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