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Where do you live? City/State/country?
I live in Peru as you know . Peru is divided in 25 regions called departments and subdivided into 180 provinces.
So: Country-Peru Deparment-Lima Province-Lima


Prominent language spoken? Other languages/dialects?

Main language: Spanish.
Quechua is another language spoken by a great part of our population, next comes the Aymara.

Is this rural or urban? Rough size?
We have urban and rural places. Lima is urban and the capitals of most of the departments located on the coast. The deparments in the middle and south-east are rural while the deparments north-east are forest.
web page http://www.infoperu.com/pics/cities/miraflores.jpg


web page

What do you like most/least about where you live?
Most: Peru: It’s food. We have all kinds of tipical food, each department has it’s own diversity of plates, our food in general is just delicious. Main plates, desserts …mmmm!

I’ll mention some just from Lima:
Ceviche

Aji de gallina - Chicken in strips withn a sauce fo bread, milk and green pepper.
Causa rellena - Smashed potato with meat inside.

Anticuchos


Desserts:
Mazamorra


Picarones

Suspiro a la limeña


Turron de Doña Pepa: It’s tipical in October, related to a religious festivity in Lima: El Señor de los Milagros (it means Lord of the Miracles). It’s said that a woman called Josefa Marmanillo (she was called Doña Pepa) was sick so she asked to the Señor de los Milagros to be healed, after that the miracle was granted and the next Ocotber she stand at the street with her turron and offered it to Señor the los Milagros and from that time on you can’t enjoy this festivity without having turron, in fact it’s not October if you don’t have turron .



The Señor de los Milagro, is Jesus Christ with black skin, a lot of people in Lima believes on its miracles, it’s said that in the time where the Indians and black people were slaves around 1650 a black man painted it on a wall so they could venerate the god the Spanish imposed on them but they could also relate to, there was an earthquake in 1655, the houses and all the constructions fell or got broken but the wall were the Christ was painted remained unharmed, that’s why he’s called Lord of the Miracles.
In October he’s carried through the streets from it’s church to the Catedral of Lima and back in a 3 days travel and thousand of people followed him all the way the three days either thanking him or asking him for a miracle. Whether you believe or not the image it’s beautifully adorned, when you are there with all the people feels great.


The image of the "Señor de los Milagros"

You must not leave Lima without trying ceviche, anticuchos and suspiro a la limeña!

EDIT: Sorry for the big pics I'll try to make them smaller later.