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Peruvian NYC

There are Peruvian NYC communities in Paterson, New Jersey and Jackson Heights, Queens. The Peruvian Parade and Festival in Paterson and the Peru to the World Expo in Manhattan are New York City’s big Peruvian celebrations.

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Peruvian Festivals in NYC

New York City’s big Peruvian festivals include the Peruvian Parade, May Sumak Film Festival and the food festival Peru to the World Expo.

Peruvian New York City

The Peruvian Consulate is in Midtown East.

Metropolitan New York’s “Little Lima” is in Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson is the heart of the Peruvian diaspora in the United States.

The best Peruvian restaurant in New York City used to be our client Raymi, but it’s been closed for a while. Pio Pio grilled chicken restaurants are popular. There are Chinese-Peruvian Flor de Mayo Restaurants in the Upper West Side.

The Crown of the Andes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Colombian, but the big emerald in the crown is said to be the legendary Atahualpa Emerald from the last Inca ruler. The crown is human sized. The emerald is enormous.

You can find Peruvian culture in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Queens Museum. You can find Peruvian jazz at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens; Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn; and SOB’s in Hudson Square, Manhattan.

Peruvian New Yorkers

Melvi Davilla produces the wonderful Peru to the World Expo food festival.

Gabriel Alegría is one of New York City’s leading Peruvian jazz musicians.

Efraín Rozas, the Peruvian musician and technologist, fronts psychedelic salsa rockers La Mecánica Popular and will be in residence at The Kitchen in 2021.

William Cordova is a major Peruvian artist. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins.

Chicha Libre isn’t very active now, and they are not Peruvian, but they play cumbia based on Peruvian Chica music which is pretty cool. It’s sort of cumbia-surf-rock.

Many of the Andean flute players in New York City subways are Peruvian. Support the arts.

Peruvian-Americans and Peruvians

Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa is often in New York.

Peruvian-born Tony Succar is based in Miami. He won Latin Grammy Awards for Salsa Album and Producer of the Year in 2019.

Peruvian Culture

We are famous for ceviche and pisco. The two go together perfectly. [Ceviche and pisco changed my life once.] We are also famous for our Andean flutes.

Peru

Peru is defined by the Andes mountains with a dry coast on one side and Amazonian jungle on the other.

Cusco was the capital of the Inca, one of the great civilizations of South America. Spanish colonizers first controlled South America from Lima.

We still have a strong Indigenous culture. We also have Afro-Peruvian culture along the coast. While long suspected, DNA studies have recently proven that South Americans have an Oceanic heritage too. We also have vibrant Japanese Peruvian and Chinese Peruvian communities.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Peru

Peruvian folk dancers in Cusco (Martyn Unsworth/Dreamstime)
Peruvian folk dancers in Cusco (Martyn Unsworth/Dreamstime)

The ancient Inca sanctuary city of Machu Picchu is an icon of Peru, but we have many World Heritage Sites. These include:

  • Arequipa, a colonial city with Indigenous influences
  • Caral-Supe, an ancient sacred city of the Norte Chico civilization
  • Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the Chimú culture
  • Chavín de Huantar, an ancient Andean city
  • Cusco, the ancient Inca capital
  • Huascarán National Park, high Andean mountains around Peru’s tallest peak
  • Lima City Center, the colonial city center founded in 1535
  • Manú National Park, a biosphere preserve
  • Nazca Lines, the famous earth drawings (400-650) that can only be seen from the air
  • Qhapaq Ñan Andean Road System, these ancient Inca roads run from Colombia to Chile/Argentina.
  • Río Abiseo National Park, a rainforest park with many pre-Columbian sites

There is a lot to see and do in Peru.

Sulpayki
(Thank you in Quechua)

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