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Tourism to Peru
Foreign tourism in Peru has increased over the last year, according to the report 2011 by the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics and Information Technology (INEI by its Spanish acronym).
A total of 2,829,360 people visited Peru for tourism. Most tourists from neighboring countries: in Chile 45 percent, 7 percent of Ecuador, Bolivia 6 percent and 4 percent in Argentina, Colombia and Brazil.
The United States is credited with 12 percent of visitors, followed by Spain, which represents 5 percent. However, when these songs were added for the tourists who enter the country despite Lima Jorge Chavez International Airport-the country’s international airport, most tourists come from the United States. The main driver of tourism in Peru is the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu, located in the mountains outside of Cuzco and the Sacred Valley surrounded. This year is the hundredth anniversary of Machu Picchu, rediscovered marking when Yale archaeologist and explorer Hiram Bingham stumbled on the site, with an expedition led by people who knew the site. Thank you to the charming town of Cusco and the many traditional villages across scatted Sacred Valley, many visitors combine their holidays in Peru to Machu Picchu with a tour of the Sacred Valley and a few nights in the city.
Another major tourist destination in Peru is Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world and one of the largest lakes in South America. The lake is famous for its floating islands built by the local indigenous people from reeds. Many residents still live on these floating islands, which were originally created to help people escape persecution Inca. The lake is shared with Bolivia.
Finally, many visitors come to Peru to the Amazon rainforest. Peruvian rainforest makes 60 percent of the total landmass of the country. The Amazon is the border within many countries, including Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.