The era of hunter - gatherers (ca. 10.000 to 2.000 BC), is an issue that has not been completed in the immediate vicinity to the Arequipa city. Research on this important period are explained using sites such as larger and more complex Sumbay caves in the high plateau, or the shell middens from Camana, in the coast, or Puyenca near to Mollendo on the coast, important archaeological sites but distantly located with respect to the Arequipa valley. In this article the presence of pre-ceramic archaeological sites in streams that flow into the river Yarabamba evaluated. Similarly the location of a small shelter with rock art in the gorge of Cachiwasi (seasonally dry river Yarabamba tax) reporting. Recent data suggest that the system composed of river-Quequeña-Yarabamba Sogay and confluent streams have the potential not intended for the elucidation of some problems related to the period of hu...

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The town of Susapaya presents excellent geographical environments, with plant and animal resources, which seven thousand years ago served as a habitable setting in the development of hunter-gatherers. The natural resources that support these scenarios were apparently also predictable as potential hunting areas, at the moment the area is a nature reserve dedicated to the protection of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), considered one of the possible eligible resources in pre-ceramic hunting activities, perhaps preferred as higher visibility prey. The scene painted in Qauranparqui, with the figures of camelids, indicates the importance of the area. In addition, in a simple relationship in this area between the extensive presence of camelids (guanaco) and the figures represented on the rocky walls of Qauranparqui, it is proposed that they correspond precisely to the guanaco variety.

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En el siglo XVI, durante el reparto de encomiendas realizado por el Marqués Francisco Pizarro, estas fueron entregadas con sus respectivos elementos productivos: la extensión de tierras y  la cantidad de gente como mano de obra disponible. Esta riqueza en el kuracazgo de Tacna, de acuerdo a los antecedentes de la investigación, tuvo una estructura de gobierno en base a dos mitades: Hanansaya con su llacta Pachía y su mandón Ccata, Cata o Cato, concedida a Hernando de Torres; y Urinsaya con la llacta Tacana y su mandón Estaca o Istaca concedida a Pedro Pizarro. De una nueva aproximación a las fuentes originales, se demuestran dos aspectos importantes: que la concesión de las sayas a los encomenderos mencionados tiene un orden equivocado, y que el kuracazgo de Tacna nunca ha presentado una estructura unitaria dual andina, esta fue el res...

The Ministry of Culture defines the manifestations of Intangible Cultural Heritage as cultural and social identity expressions, carried out by a collectivity in a unitary or group form, passed on from generation to generation. In this sense, the elements expressed as scarf and skirt of the Camilaca Carnival are proposed as intangible cultural heritage because it summarizes feelings of communal identity, as well as the transmission of artistic knowledge in festive events that are carried out annually. These cultural elements also revalue the work and labor performed by Camilaca's female sector.