The view and the sheer scale are overwhelming: Lake Titicaca, high up in the Altiplano, the high plateau of the Andes, is 120 miles long and 40 miles wide. It lies at an altitude of 12,500 feet and is divided…
Peru
On May 16, 1962, Pope John XXIII, in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, made Martin de Porres the first black American saint. Martin was born on December 9, 1579, in Lima, Peru, the illegitimate son of Don…
