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	The best of South Peru The best destinations of the South: Machu Picchu, The Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, Lake Titicaca and Puno, etc.
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	The Best of Tacna Discover the Ite Wetlands, the city of Tacna, the petroglyphs of Miculla and the Inca Trails in Tacna.
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Tourist attracions in Tacna

	Tacna City The heroic city of Tacna enchants with its museums, monuments, casonas and churches. It´s also ideal to go
	Locumba and Toquepala The caves of Toquepala hide ancient paintings. At the same time you can visit the Señor de Locumba Sanctur

	Coastal Route Tacna The Tacna coast has many great beaches. It´s also perfect for fishing or birdwatching.
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Province of Jorge Basadre

Locumba Valley

93 km northwest of Tacna (1 hour by car) It is an inter-Andean valley famous for its grapevines and for its first-rate wine and pisco industry. Presently, agriculture is the prime activity with chili peppers being the number one crop. In the city of Locumba, the capital of the province, you find the Sanctuary of the Lord of Locumba, also named "Lord of the Burned Feet", whose festival has been celebrated in September since 1776.
Sanctuary of the Lord of Locumba
93 km northwest of Tacna (1 hour and 30 minutes by car) in the valley of Locumba Also called the church of the “Señor de los Pies Quemados” (Lord of the Burned Feet), it was built thanks to donations from the devotees of the Lord of Locumba. The church has a central, semi-spherically domed nave. Inside, the silver covered cross with the image of Christ is of particular interest.

Toquepala
For many people Toquepala is known as an industrial powerhouse of cooper. But few know that is one of the starting points to investigate the antiquity of man in our country. In Toquepala caves lived the Stone Age Man, who was a hunter and had a strong inclination for art and ritual practices. Toquepala, is the one of the first Andean cultures where lived some of the most ancient people of Peru 9,580 years ago.