Since the State Platform was implemented in August of this year, 350,000 tickets have been sold to visit the Inca city of Machu Picchu, in Cusco, and nearly 10,000 to tour the pre-Inca citadel of Kuélap, in Amazonas, the Ministry of Culture indicated today.
More than 6 million people have also benefited and more than 45 million soles (around 12 million dollars) have been raised.
In this regard, the Minister of Culture, Fabricio Valencia, highlighted the implementation of the State Platform. “The ticket sales for the best destinations in the world are sold virtually. For this reason, we now have a platform run by the State. There are Machu Picchu and Kuélap, and other sites will be added progressively,” he said.
Ruraq maki benefited traditional artisans and artists
In 2024, the economy was also strengthened with more than 4 million soles (1.07 million dollars) obtained in income for the traditional artisans and artists of Ruraq maki.
In the last edition in December, 2.1 million soles (560 thousand dollars) were reached, surpassing all previous records in the 18 years that the program has been in place.
Likewise, with an investment of 30 million soles (around 8.1 million dollars), the construction of the country's first Bicentennial Cultural Park in Huancayo began, which will benefit 150 thousand inhabitants of the Junín region.
Throughout 2024, nearly 220 thousand citizens, around 370 thousand children and adolescents, and approximately 3,800 people with disabilities, were able to freely access the 56 museums managed by the Ministry of Culture.
This year, which is about to end, 4,856 cultural assets recovered from nine countries were repatriated and 2,531 cultural assets resulting from illicit trafficking were identified in 20 nations.
Line 1817
The Ministry of Culture took an important step by creating the “Alert Against Racism” Service, addressing 279 cases of ethnic-racial discrimination. In this context, the 1817 line was created and launched to report and address cases of ethnic-racial discrimination.
In addition, the review of the proposal for the National Policy for Indigenous or Native Peoples (PNPI) was completed, with participatory processes between national indigenous organizations and more than 30 entities.
The PNPI managed to identify more than 140 public services that will contribute to the collective rights of nearly 6 million Peruvians who identify themselves as part of an indigenous or native people.
Likewise, a Roadmap was approved for the development of the PNPI prior consultation process in 2025.
Meanwhile, the Culture sector announced that in 2024 the gap in access to books and reading was reduced, through the implementation of 40 municipal libraries with a transfer of 1.63 million soles (around 440 thousand dollars) , benefiting more than 1.5 million citizens.
Elimination of restrictions
Likewise, they highlighted the elimination of restrictions for the exercise of the work of archaeologists, recognizing their fundamental right to free work. This was achieved nearly 40 years later. Now they can simultaneously direct more than one archaeological intervention.
Likewise, Legislative Decree No. 1661 was approved, which regulates the automatic physical legal sanitation of pre-Hispanic real estate declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation, to simplify the processes for the conservation and enhancement of archaeological zones, facilitating public and private investment for their restoration.
Additionally, it was agreed that operating licenses in historical monuments will not require authorization from the Ministry of Culture, to facilitate the formalization of economic activities.
In the context of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) 2024, which took place in our country, an important agreement was signed with the China Media Group organization, on the occasion of the visit of the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping. This agreement will promote our ancient culture in the world.
Documents on the Peruvian origin of pisco
They highlighted that Peru has documents that would demonstrate that pisco is a production of Peruvian origin. This could be verified with the discovery of four manuscripts in the deposits of the colonial fund, of the General Archive of the Nation (AGN), dating from 1587, 1589, 1605 and 1613, on the production and distribution of grape brandy, today called pisco.
These valuable documents, found this year by the National General Archive, include historical testimonies about the production and trade of grape brandy, today called pisco.
These manuscripts were registered by the Peruvian Committee for Memory of the World of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which delivered to the National Archives the certificates of its registration of the manuscripts dating from 1587 to 1613, on the origin of Peruvian pisco.
These are some of the achievements of the Ministry of Culture at the end of 2024. Added to this are other actions with positive results to protect the ancient heritage that we house as the cradle of civilization, the promotion of cultural industries and the care of indigenous or native peoples, and the Afro-Peruvian people.
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Published: 12/30/2024