The "great drought" of 1956-1961 in the Puna highlands generated significant emigration to urban areas such as Arequipa. Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, the percentage of Puno residents in the slums of Arequipa increased from 12.9% to 39.08%, reaching 41.41% in 1971. The population of the city of Puno …
Between the 1950s and 1960s, the Puna highlands experienced a particularly strong combination of droughts and floods. The 1960 floods were part of a cycle of natural disasters that included the droughts of 1955-56, 1957 and 1964, and the floods of 1960, 1962 and 1963. These extreme weather events generated …
Between the 1950s and 1960s, the Puna altiplano experienced a particularly strong combination of droughts and floods. Floods occurred in 1960, 1962 and 1963, alternating with droughts in 1955-56, 1957 and 1964. These natural disasters generated significant emigration to urban areas such as Arequipa. In December 1961, the Corporación de …