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The promised land /PERU { 48 images } Created 2 May 2014

In the immense Peruvian Amazon basin, where the Andes give way to the woods and heat, there is a special place, where a reality made of cultural wealth, diverse and abundant agricultural production, respect for nature and widespread social approval is the result of an ancient Teutonic colonization. A large group of impoverished Austrian and German farmers arrived here in the mid-nineteenth century, cultivated a valley and founded a colony. Since then towns have mushroomed, other people came from other areas of the country, creating a de facto multiculturalism, however Teutonic names and faces have not been lost, and cultural identity persists through an architecture inspired by that of Central Europe and through traditional Alpine clothing and dances.Those ancient emigrants recreated a farming civilization similar to where they came from, which their descendants have modernized without changing its original identity.
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  • Some girls of Prusia shortly before dancing during the celebration of the founding of Pozuzo.
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  • The welcome gate, which is reached after about five hours of dirt road, clearly says that Pozuzo is the only Austro-German colony in the world. Founded in 1859, the first village you meet soon after, however, it is called Prusia, those ancient families of settlers who were able to get them until after more than two years of vicissitudes the territory was divided according to nationalities, the Germans stopped before and called their colony "Prusia" (German state was "refounded" in 1871 in Versailles, its biggest part until then was called Prusia), passing a river, on the other hand, you get to La Colonia, where they settled the Austrians.
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  • Panorama of the hills above Pozuzo, the settlers created a  via crucis"  with typical alpine chapels.
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  • The bell tower  of the new parish church of Prussia, could easily be mistaken for any one of a mountain village.
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  • People from Oxapampa.They could be descendants of Europeans, natives from the "Selva" or migrated from the Andes. The inhabitants of the area today are all Peruvian citizens and there is no classism.
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  • People from Pozuzo. They could be descendants of Europeans, natives from the "Selva" or migrated from the Andes. The inhabitants of the area today are all Peruvian citizens and there is no classism.
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  • People from Pozuzo.
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  • People from Pozuzo.Lady Shaus, elderly peasant woman with a German accent in his Spanish.
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  • People from Pozuzo. The Schaus family, with a departed family member.
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  • People from Pozuzo.Lady Ana Randolf, a direct descendant of Austrian, lives on a farm midway between Prusia and La Colonia, says she go to the store just to buy the detergent and salt, the rest is self-produced. Manages the water in the house like his ancestors, with buckets and jugs
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  • Mindful of the Germanic custom of his ancestors Aldo opened a brewery on the outskirts of Pozuzo, now that the roads are easier, you can get the raw material for making beer, not found anywhere else in the area. The first settlers who settled in the area lost forever the cold of the Alps and their beloved beer.
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  • The German language has been lost through the generations, but the language is a key marker of cultural identity and for this to Pozuzo continues to teach as an optional subject in primary school.
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  • In the area there are still a few cemeteries with the graves of early settlers or their sons, these places have become a tourist attraction since the tombstones, like here in Huancabamba, are written in an archaic German that the direct descendants of the dear departed do not know anymore.
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  • Inside the ancient parish church of Pozuzo
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  • The early settlers transformed into monuments are a bit 'naive. That way modern Pozuzo in 1974 led to a road in recent years has also led to the ATM.
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  • Exit the Mass in the ancient parish church of Pozuzo In the days of the anniversary of the country, very close to that of the nation,they are  using the traditional costumes.
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  • Prusia, Pozuzo.Direct descendants of emigrants from Austria and Germany that  in the mid-nineteenth century  colonized the area. These young people  from Pozuzo dance  the same rhythms on which they danced their ancestors, perhaps even on the same lawn. Because of the unusual to discover an Austro-German tradition in the middle of the Amazon, the area of Pozuzo, despite being very difficlult to reach, has become a tourist destination. But for these young people retrace traditions means maintaining a strong tie with their origins thus safeguarding the cultural identity.
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  • The proximity of Lima and the quiet environment are the factors stimulating the annual festival  Selvamonos a national and not pop music event that takes place on the outskirts of Oxapampa.
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  • Although Selvamonos is a festival of underground counterculture moved to the countryside, there are games that remind the rural world.
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  • Cinta race in the Ruffner ranch at Oxapampa. A rider of the clan Ruffler preparing himself  to race,  greets the audience
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  • Going riding one of several suspension bridges over the river Huancabamba
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  • The national park Yanachaga-Chemillén is the natural jewel of he area
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  • The tourist enjoyment of the park is possible thanks to a good local guide service
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  • The national park Yanachaga-Chemillén is the natural jewel of he area
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  • The tourist enjoyment of the park is possible thanks to a good local guide service
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  • In the headquarters of the national park Yanachaga Chemillén at Oxapampa there is a large archive of all plant species
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  • In the area of ??Miraflores, a suburb of Oxapampa, there are many houses that are reminiscent of the alpine style
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  • A wedding in the ancient parish church of Oxapampa.
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  • The presence of Andean migrants has brought other religions, an Anabaptist pastor is celebrating a ritual in the river Huancabamba on the outskirts of  Oxapampa.
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  • The Yanesha culture has its own sanctuary halfway between Oxapampa and Huancabamba, Don Feliciano, of the neighboring village, is the official singer of an ancient legend that became quarrelsome gods in various boulders that form the sanctuary
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  • Vater Otto  is the "pub" oxapampino designed in a modern concept  and therefore very popular with tourists, the images of the rural past of Oxapampa make a fine show of themselves.
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  • Marguerita Vente  is an artist who has spent much of his life to Oxapampa.She sells his sculptures in the fashionable shops of Lima and even directly to his estate, where tourists do visit to see nature, garden, home and laboratory
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  • At Club Social Oxapampa dancing country music, a little 'disguised as cowboys, but they do many other initiatives, the association has more than one hundred years and photos of the various presidents who are followed seem to watch the room because everything runs smoothly .
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  • The pork and beef is one of the businesses in the area. Caller butchery  make sausages and smoked.
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  • Dairy is another important local business: Henry Johansson, a descendant of a Swedish sailor, who fell in love with an emigrant direct to Pozuzo and followed her all the way to Peru, visits a dozen manufacturers every morning to collect the milk that will be processed in the Floralp Cheese Factory in Oxapampa.
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  • At work in the dairy Floralp.
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  • At work in the dairy Floralp.
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  • The granadilla is the flagship product of agriculture in the  Huancabamba  area.
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  • The Quispe family dedicates itself to the production of distilled liquors having as basis the sugar cane, have two mills with annexed distillery, one Chontabamba and one Huancabamba.
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  • The Quispe family dedicates itself to the production of distilled liquors having as basis the sugar cane, have two mills with annexed distillery, one Chontabamba and one Huancabamba.
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  • The family Hausmann on an old German tractor still running pose in front of the family home built by the founder in the forties.
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  • The model of Italian espresso machine has become the symbol of Villa Rica, almost supplanting the native with the large coffee bean on the shoulders
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  • In a coffee plantation during harvest, the laborers come from far away because jobs pay well and work is guaranteed for many weeks a year.
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  • Villarica. Pasco. Peru . In a coffee plantation during harvest. The laborers come from far away because jobs pay well and work is guaranteed for many weeks a year.
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  • In a coffee plantation during harvest, the laborers come from far away because jobs pay well and work is guaranteed for many weeks a year.
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  • In a first processing plant in the area of the lake Oconal. The coffee beans are washed, cleaned and dried, most of the product is exported as well, on arrival in the various countries of the world will be toasted
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  • Ana Lisa Salazar manages the municipal laboratory quality control of coffee, even the final buyers, holders of notes European brands rely on her for the quality assurance of what they are buying.
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  • Villa Rica is a city untidy and chaotic, a contradiction in terms since it is the city's best coffee in the world, which is almost a profitable monoculture
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