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Arequipa is a city in southern Peru and the nation's
second most-important city. It is also the capital of the Arequipa
Region and the Arequipa Province. The city stands at the
foot of the snow-capped volcano El Misti, as well as the Chachani and Pichu Pichu volcanoes in the highlands. Arequipa has many fine colonial-era Spanish
buildings built of sillar, a pearly white
volcanic rock used extensively in the construction of the city, from which it
gets its nickname La
Ciudad Blanca ("the white city"). The city is
located at an altitude of 2,380 meters (7740 feet) above sea
level, in the Peruvian Andes.
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