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Why don’t peruvians build their capital in the Andes like their neighbors?
Even if it were full of slums, at least they would have vegetation and views of snowy mountains.
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I wonder whom he voted for
https://www.tiktok.com/@koirenix/video/7648722485998800149
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>>222154767
The Peruvian Andes is almost completely desert climate
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>>222154767
Because Lima has been Peru's capital for so long, it was originally chosen for its access to the sea and its fertile valley that could support a far larger population than it naturally could, thanks to the expansion of irrigation canals over thousands of years. Combined with its stable, mild climate (most of the time foggy despite rain being an alien concept there), this made for excellent cultivation year-round across a large area of land.
Pic related, images at the top and bottom show Lima's main river irrigation works just before the valley was conquered by the Incas, while the image at the center left shows them before the city's recent rapid urbanization due to migration from inland Peru (it had 600,000 inhabitants in 1940, today over 11 million people live in this valley)
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>>222157825
Such an odd climate. Temperatures are what you'd call late summer/early autumn here, but then there are the sun hours of Iceland and the humidity of a rainforest with barely any rainfall whatsoever. Do people use AC to keep their homes nice and dry?
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>>222157813
That's the coast: super arid, but very habitable where rivers descend from the Andes, their only source of water. That climate persists up the western slopes of the Andes to around 1,000-1,500 meters above sea level (3,300-4,900 ft).
Then you cross into the Peruvian highlands. On average, I would say the most human-suitable area here is around 3,000 meters above sea level (give or take roughly 500 meters lower or higher) or 9,800 ft. And around 3,000 meters is the altitude where highland Peruvians live on average according to the INEI. The yearly climate only has two seasons: dry and wet.
The puna, over 4,000 masl (13,100 ft), doesn't support tree life except for a few species, so it becomes very desert-looking again at those altitudes during the dry season, though with grass, unlike the coast.
As you go south from southern Peru (the region of Cusco, to give you a better reference) to the Altiplano plateau at the border regions with Bolivia, the dry season becomes longer and the highland climate drier though the northern Altiplano (the Peruvian side) is considered the wet part of the Altiplano because to the south (Bolivia, northern Chile) extends the Atacama Desert.
The northern punas of the country (like in Cajamarca) are extremely wetter in comparison. The alternative name, especially when they are wetter, is jalca or paramo, the latter being commonly used by our northern neighbors.
And then, the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes are extremely rainy, despite being at the same elevation as the western slopes, which, as I said, are extremely rainless.
>>222158227
People in Lima typically don't use AC AFAIK, but the climate has been hotter in recent years.
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>>222154767
because it would be retarded in their context, you cant put lima's port in mountains
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>>222158351
>I would say the most human-suitable area here is around 3,000 meters above sea level
This is the Jauja Valley, at 3,352 masl (11,000 ft) in the Andes of central Peru. It was the Spaniards’ first choice for a capital before Lima was chosen.
The valley held an immense system of storage facilities: over 2,500-3,000 colcas (storehouses) have been excavated in this valley, with a combined capacity of 170,000 cubic meters, the largest known so far in pre-Columbian America.
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>>222158787
Storage facilities for food, mostly.
Hatun Shawsha was located here, the capital of the Inca Empire’s Hanan Suyukuna, or upper states (Chinchaysuyu + Antisuyu). Like Cusco, it was described as a large city with straight streets and large rectangular kanchas (city blocks).
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Because living in a comfy humid desert that filters passport bros who think about Afghanistan when they see it from the plane is much better than living next so some soulless mountains breathing thin dry air.