Puno City

Puno is located at the southeast of  Perú, in the Collao Meseta. On this department we can find the highest lake of the world: The Titicaca. It has big a geographic units like the andes which are the 70% of the department area and it’s conformed by the Altiplano, intermediate areas and the cordillera, the jungle, which represent the 25% of its territory isn’t too habitated. The weather is cold and dry with rain for 4 months. On the weather is hot. There is an important potential of subterranous water.
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The main turistic attractive of Puno is the lake Titicaca located in the Meseta Collao. It’s the sailed laked more higher in the world with 193 km of large and 64 km of wide with a maximum depth of 300 mt. It has a great view with the ice mountains of the Cordillera Red which give it a mysterious. Same people said the Uros are the older race in the world.
Some important buildings are la Catedral, el Balcón del Conde de Lemos, El Arco Deustua, La Panacoteca Municipal, The Dryer Museum and Popular Art Museum. Far 30 kms of Puno is located the Chullpas of sillustan which where the graves of the chiefs hatuncollas (big men) and many other things people from Puno are pacific loyal.
It was the headquarter of the altiplanic civilization of the Titicaca, where it ovas organized Pucara with a monumental arquicture.
Before Pucará appeared the cultur Qaluyo in the year 1000 bc. connected to Marcavalle of Cusco and Paracas of Ica.
Since that time began to construction of pyramid buildings.

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Approximately 200 to 300 ac Tiahuanaco began to develop its classic time, since thence Puno belongs to that culture which main center was at the southeast of the Titicaca lake when Tiahuanaco disarrange in the siglo XII-XIII were born new kingdoms like: Los Collas with the main center in Hatuncolla and Sillustani, los lupaca with the main center in Juli and Chucuito and the Pacajes around Desaguadero. The most brilliant are the Chullpas of Sillustani and the Pucará Temples.
In the Conquer Time, the Spanish for example Francisco Pizarro, were established on Cusco City because of the riches the region had. And on the Republic time is reminded the visit of Simon Bolivar (1825).