Puno.

Location.

The department of Puno this located to the southeast Peru in the plateau of the Collao at 3,800m beside the Titicaca lake, the highest navigable lake in the world, Puno has approximately  a population of the one millon of inhabitants.

Climate.

There are two seasons during the year and they are from the  rains of December to April and the semi-dry one of May to December, with temperate days and cold nights, specially from May to July.

Historical Review.

During the pre-Inca time, occured the development of the Tiwanacu culture, maximum expression of the aymara¥s culture, who left impressive cities like Tiwanacu, the political capital and Sillustani, the religius capital of the empire.

The Spaniards tried to conquer this region finding serious difficulties made the Viceroy Count of Lemos to travel to pacify this region, establishing Puno in November 04 1668.

The jesuits constructed beautiful churches like those of Juli and Pomata, being from these places where they initialized Jesuits missions to the Paraguay and Bolivia.

Now this is an agricultural region and cattleman, with breeding of auquenidos of those they works their wool.