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Peru' Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum expects to reach one-million-tourist
The Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum, located near the city of Chiclayo in the northern region of Lambayeque, expects to reach the one-million-tourist mark in 2008, after six years of its inauguration, museum director, Walter Alva, stated Thursday.
"Around 400 people visit the museum every day. This year, if we are lucky, we can reach the one-million-tourist mark since it was opened in November 2002", he told Andina news agency.
Alva estimated that the museum will be visited by over 140,000 people by the end of this year. "Foreign tourists percentage increases gradually every year," he noted.
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The Aymaras, alive civilization.-
The Aymaras are a cultural group of the Andes in Peru, and the descendants of the Tiahuanacu Empire in the Lake Titicaca, region of Bolivia and Peru.
Because of this, the Aymara have contributed to several research projects about the Tiwanaku civilization, including the reconstructions of the agricultural methods conducted by Clark Erickson and associates in the 1980s. They are a people rich in myth, knowledge and spirituality.
The empire Tiahuanaco disappeared one thousand years ago, but its descendants still till the same land and worship the same spirits of the earth and sky. The Aymara are a colonized people, they have adapted many of their cultural forms and social behaviors to this reality. This is why they can be called Ancient/Modern People of the Andes.
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