Source: Digitized analogue photo taken by WTL© on site in Arequipa, Perú.
Comments: After exiting the convent we return full circle to the beginning of this tour of the Monasterio de Santa Catalina in Arequipa. Using a telephoto lens (See: <= Santa Catalina #3), the professor-photographer cannot help but notice four women in the center (of the photo) on their hands and knees culling a field for remnants of potatoes. Aymará women like these women did this very same thing before Pizarro's subordinate, Garci Manuel de Carbajal conquered this region and founded the city of Arequipa in 1540. Most probably the city's name comes from the Aymará words ari (peak) and kipa (near); hence Arequipa means "near the mountain peak."

Note on Andean potatoes: In Chapter 6 of Charles C. Mann's major work on the Columbian Exchange, 1493; Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (2011), discusses the spread of potatoes around the globe, which started in the Andes with the Aymará and Quechua people and their predecessors and that is now a major food resource everywhere. See an exerpt from this book here: => The Andes and potatoes.