Source: WTL digitized analogue photo© taken in Arequipa, Perú (elevation 7,740 ft).
Comments: From a hill in Arequipa (la ciudad blanca / the white city) we look across some potatoe fields and look up to the towering peak of the volcano called El Misti (about 17,000 ft) towering over the city. Arequipa was founded as a Spanish colonial city in 1540. As you see in this photograph, however, the region was a supplier of agricultural products to the Inca empire by the local residents, the Aymará. The region surrounding Arequipa is still largely agricultural, but it has also added a large industrial sector in the 21st century including factories for food and beverages, construction, and textile and chemical exports. Most probably the city's name comes from the Aymará words ari (peak) and kipa (near); hence Arequipa means "near the mountain peak".