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.