500 Years of Water in Lima, Peru

[@sag7768]

Nooooo way!!!! I'm a huge fan of your channel!!! Can't believe you made a video about my city

[@luismercado5160]

Viva Perú csm

[@lastsovietspy]

viva perú! :)

[@Hanfiot]

fuera mrd

[@nicolasnicolas5238]

Se siente como un sueño jaja

[@luciferg12]

Me siento exactamente igual!

[@diegosaco26]

A very importante mistake to be corrected. It is about war between Peru and Chile. Chile was never secretly backed by Spain, but by England. Specifically the Family Office “Casa Gibbs”.

[@allanfrd]

Nice to know👍, I was wondering about this same thing since Chile was founded by a British guy, it just make more sense.

[@crescentwuju496]

Also, it was more about Chile vs Bolivia, and then Bolivia dragged Peru to fight against Chile.

[@commandermcnash5137]

Let us not pretend we didn't fuck up at that war, on the other hand we have either won or managed to grind into a stalemate all the wars we fought since the beginning of the 20th century on, we have kept our borders more or less the same for over a century, amusingly enough and due political maneuvers we technically defeated the Axis, how many nations on Earth can brag about it? The war with Chile was the pivotal moment for Peru to create a national conscience, it's like what is happening to Ukraine today in relation to Crimea, we became so butthurt about losing Arica for the first time in our republican history we had a very clear cause for every peruvian to rally behind.

[@gonzalorios8186]

I am a Peruvian water governance practitioner, and this is one of the best summaries of the peruavian and Lima water utility provision I have seen.

[@angelmolochecenteno5859]

'a que te refieres con que eres un practicante de la gobernanza del agua en peru? trabajas en ANA? o a que te refieres

[@gonzalorios8186]

@@angelmolochecenteno5859 me refiero a que he trabajado por la gobernanza del agua en la cuenca del Rimac. En específico en varios distritos de la subcuenca del Río Santa Eulalia, para GWP (Asociación Mundial del Agua, por sus siglas en inglés). Gobernanza no tiene que ver únicamente con el trabajo con entidades del Estado, sino más bien con todas las partes interesadas en la gestión del agua.

[@tiberio1352]

@@gonzalorios8186 Gracias x la explicación, quedo bien claro. Mira, el agua es super importante, pero como una persona pensante, como pareces ser, te causa preocupación como LIma se ha llenado de EDIFICIOS HABITACIONALES ???....Con lo que ha pasado ayer en Taiwan....solo puedo decir que Lima es un juego de dados. El SEIS cae en cualquier momento y sera una CATASTROFE muy dificil que el país supere. Tu opinión?... Recuerda los edificios en Lima no creo que tengan construccion antisismica.

[@Law0086]

I'm a Japanese American and I love it when my friends call me Chinito.

[@nillyk5671]

So you have native American in you? Or are you Japanese European? Did you take a dna test? 🤔

[@oscara1573]

Tbf thats a kind of derogative, basically means "little chinese" but it might have another connotation idk

[@dimusoikatherz526]

@@oscara1573 Diminutives in LatAm (or at least in Peru) are mostly used to add endearing emphasis or simply to refer to something small, not in a derogatory way.

[@oardude]

When you love some one in peru you use suffix ito or ita to an adjective. It means little. So chino + ito = chinito. Negro + ito = negrito. Gringo + ito = gringuito

[@Angelo-sc9of]

are you pchujoy?

[@waterbox4202]

I live a couple of streets away from the Rímac, it is crazy to see people from all over the world watching a documentary about my hometown, good job nice video

[@UngatitoMatazurdos]

Y dale U.

[@TheIrieman15]

Watching from Joburg, South Africa

[@RickyMon]

Hablaaaaa barrio! Saludos desde aquisito no mas en surco

[@astorp12345]

Nashville,Tennessee here!

[@leoF_0312]

"Fun" fact, even if water prices raises by 3 or 4 times, it would still be cheaper than water that the hill people gets. Yes, (the actual) poor people pays more for water (and in certain cases it's impossible to send pumbling to those areas)

[@raylopez99]

Another fun fact our guide told us when visiting the Andes is to purify the water even though it comes from a mountain stream, as the people upstream dump wastewater into it. Sht flows downhill...

[@fldon2306]

Great video! Lima is the second largest populated city in a desert, behind Cairo. The water shortage effects have already been felt in Ica Provence, a south of Lima, where water and aquifers for agriculture have depleted and caused reductions in farming. Most of Lima does not have storm drains. The fog, called Garúa, produces water droplets that one can see falling, and the ground gets wet, but there is no accumulation! Virtually all houses and buildings have water storage on the roof; “Rotoplas” tanks are visible everywhere. Lima still lacks the ability to process sewage completely; the Pacific Ocean has bacteria present as I found out the “fun way”😂😂 Quick Spanish lesson: Double L is “y”, so Calleo is Kai-yow And I is pronounced E, so Rio Rimac is Ree-Mack Thanks!

[@nillyk5671]

It's not Calleo but Callao.

[@juanulises]

Surronded by the highlands and the greatest river in the World, the Amazon

[@fldon2306]

@@nillyk5671sorry, too many Pilsens!!

[@mauriciohablutzel]

​@@fldon2306xd, ese es mi paisano csm, viva el Perú mano

[@elsmarlot]

@@fldon2306 XD

[@Seaweedsz]

Did not expect a video about my city. Thank you, it is a really good video.

[@MavetSomnus]

Love the South American deep dive! Keep emcoming

[@sebada321]

Every asian looking person in Peru is called "chino" or chinese, mainly due to their eyes. So yeah, it's a misnomer, but at this point it's part of the culture.

[@Shinzon23]

Casual racism is Casual racism

[@completelynotafurry]

People do this through all of LATAM either chinese or as of lately, korean too

[@stevebabiak6997]

I thought chinos were a type of clothing ;)

[@sebada321]

@@completelynotafurry Didn't know it was through all of latam. Thats cool (?) to know.

[@dexterminador]

@sebada321 • In Peru they accepted the Japanese as equals of their white North American or European fascist and racist masters.They used to insult and despise the Chinese until a half century ago because: they did not speak good correct Spanish, they were not white, they were poor immigrants and "worse" of that all: they were not "christians". Just in recent years they started to treat them as intelligent clever working and successful human beings. But still there are remaining a lots of prejudices around the corner.

[@saa82vik]

8:50 The Peru Guano boom ended in the 1860-70 because of war and becasue other natural valuable nitrate sources were discovered outside Peru. The Haber- Bosch process for ammonia was discovered in the 1900s and industrialized in the 1910. Still in 1915 the German ammonia production was a few tonnes/day if I remember correctly, totally absorbed by the munition industry for decades on.

[@italorossid]

Correct, this is mentioned in History of Peru in school.

[@saa82vik]

I knew it hahahhah! and about Haber-Bosch be accurate with my war criminals! @@italorossid

[@oceanheadted]

There’s a great pun in here. “Literal desert” or is it “littoral desert”! 😂

[@zamplify]

People left a lot of old soda cans as well so it's a litteral desert.

[@rkan2]

​@@zamplifylitterall*

[@missingmochigumanofficial]

Wait, how's your comment three months old?

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

ayo wtf

[@shazmosushi]

@@missingmochigumanofficial Supporters on Patreon get early access through an unlisted video link. When the video is published the published date resets

[@bonnolog]

Growing up in Lima, I took the food for granted. Looking back, hands down the best cuisine I've ever had in my whole life.

[@andrejmichal4676]

I watch all your videos and love to listen to you, even though I don't understand half of the technical stuff you talk about (but a lot of it sticks). Then suddenly a video about a country, or a city comes out and I'm double hooked! Especially this particular city, where I grew up in the 1980s, although I'm originally from Slovakia (at that time Czechoslovakia). Thank you!!

[@derchesten]

Loved it. Just a couple of notes: Fujimori's rival was the yet to be Nobel laureate Mario Vargas llosa (pronounced yo-sa not lo-sa) Try to remember Js in Spanish are pronounced like an H from haha (your pronunciation of Jauja pains me because I love that place) Fun fact, all of our elect presidents since the 90s were jailed (except Garcia who shot himself to avoid jail) , and since 2020 we've had 6 presidents go through palace of government. Even with all the political turmoil we've achieved surprising economic feats for the region, cost of living not withstanding.

[@charly.chavez]

Que gran resumen de nuestro contexto socio-politico reciente. No sabía que encontraría otro peruano en este canal.

[@patricialorenasalazarflore3920]

@@charly.chavez and what about me? (peruana)

[@franny98]

All thanks to Lord Velarde. It is amazing how well positioned the Sol is compared to other regional currencies.

[@culifabrizio1479]

Fujimori was the greatest peruvian president of the last 50 years! Also innocent until proven guilty (simple law) for Garcia! We dont know yet

[@italorossid]

@@culifabrizio1479 "Prove it then... you imbeciles!" like a villain in an HBO series.

[@rotviepe]

Asianometry uploads a video about my country *clicks immediately*

[@earthlingsixbillionsomethi2486]

That 30% missing water isn't thievery unless most developed countries have thievery. "Missing water" happens everywhere, in every country. Look it up.

[@lakrids-pibe]

It could be thievery in both cases.

[@موسى_7]

Think of Coca Cola stealing water ​@@lakrids-pibe

[@elucidatedvoyyd]

asianometry once again providing for my autistic urgent need to know random stuff most people would find unbearably boring

[@FaithyJo]

Praises video while calling it unbearably boring... Autism ✅

[@Anti-CornLawLeague]

I’m very grateful for him and Masaman. No fancy graphics. No music. Just pure infodumping.

[@colin351]

I think he had increased all our autism 👍

[@U179354]

I was like...a Water Asianometry? Yes!!

[@shazmosushi]

@Anti-CornLawLeague Thanks for the recommendation of Masaman. I just watched a video and it is the kind of no-nonsense, high-information density brain dumps that we Asianometry viewers enjoy. For similar very dry but relatively information dense autistic content, you may enjoy academic Thomas Sowell's audiobooks. There's a lot of KZbin videos that pull chapters from his many audiobooks and make them into Asianometry-like presentations. Actually, I recommend non-fiction history-focused audiobooks in general.

[@qentrepreneurship9987]

Lima has huge challenges so one of such is water shortages nowadays more and more with the La Niña phenomena. Visit Peru nice people Cheers from lake Titicaca Peru

[@VocaloidViewer]

I myself grew up for about 8 years in Lima and visit when i can usually for the summer(Northern hemisphere) but winter over there. I remember those big trucks carrying water and going all the way up those hills. Though back then, there wasn't a lot of people in the hills. Now i see houses all the way to the top.

[@dexterminador]

Shanty towns

[@DrewElGringasho]

Los cerros.. not to recommended to go there by yourself

[@BrianKelsay]

At start of the video, I immediately thought of the devices I've seen that collect dew or water vapor using big screens. It works similar to a dehumidifier, pullling humidity out of the air and then condensing and collecting it.

[@bakedbeings]

Pretty sure Kuzco has a fab at his summer house, buried under the pool . The pool water's kept ultra pure, allowing jt to function as a backup supply for the wafer cleaning process.

[@yunowhatitis6783]

I was worried for a moment, glad to know the link to semiconductors for this topic.

[@norgepab2802]

😂

[@alvaroalejandrollanos9139]

But Kuzco summer villa is in the tropical Andes, where the mountains meet the Amazon. He didnt had a water problem at all 😂

[@VioletPrism]

This is such a a good video crazy how big Spains reach and influence was during those times

[@gjsoriano1]

Spain is the leading naval empire before Great Britain. Spain was able to amassed great fortune from the Galleon Trade, an alternative route shipping goods from Southeast Asia (spices) and China (mostly silk and porcelain) that goes through the Philippines and Mexico. The Galleon trade passes through two big oceans, the Pacific and Atlantic before reaching the European continent.

[@aldrinmilespartosa1578]

Certainly reaches the Philippines.

[@nillyk5671]

They basically destroyed everything they touched.

[@isculptmemes]

@@nillyk5671 ah yes, nothing says destruction like leaving behind hundreds of universities, infrastructure and leaving alone the preexisting ruling class through making them nobility

[@PeculiarNotions]

Thank you for this examination into Lima's water history.

[@aformalevent]

Great work, thank you! I really enjoy your well researched and well worded videos. Great to see you branching out.

[@RK-cj4oc]

Yessss. More water infrastructure videoss. Thank you and Keep up the great work!

[@mojave3571]

jesus christ, I've been following you for a while, I can't believe you've talked about my city and I can see in some pictures you used the places where I worked lol

[@PezWeon]

I congratulate you for your good research work. The concentration of all the infrastructure in Lima has meant that other regions of this country cannot be developed, so the water resources are still not used as they should be. We also suffer from the problem of corrupt politicians. . Greetings from Peru.

[@mattp.158]

This unkocked a memory of me as a child in the Limean outskirts watching one of the creepiest TV PSAs about cholera. Like it was literally my first memory of something on TV and it had a skull and scary synthy stuff from the 90's 😭. Now I know why 😢 thank you.

[@Croz89]

Sounds a bit like some of the AIDS PSAs they had in the 80's.

[@oscara1573]

childhood memories

[@italorossid]

I remember the one with the Afroperuvian beat, inviting people to rush to the URO (Oral Rehydration Unit) upon symptoms. And then the ads for water purifiers, tablets or straight out diluting bleach in your barrel.

[@francolujan4265]

We need to stop giving this channel shit for not pronouncing well spanish words, this guy is doing a better job that our actual history teachers. Great job. Thanks man I appreciate this video! I just found this video and Im now subbed to your channel!

[@francolujan4265]

Also, I’m peruvian, i went to college and took several Peruvian history classes but i didn’t know most of what you just showed us here.

[@earthking12]

Lovely and very unexpected to see you feature my birth city. Great video.

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

I moved from Lima to the countryside a year ago. I predict Lima is going to have major water problems in the not too distant future.

[@talesofawhale]

For any non-peruvian, be proud you have received a masterclass on peruvian water governance much more comprehensive than most (if any) peruvian kids in school. Props to the teacher, great job, great research !!!! Besides the pronunciation of some names, you really have the will and the passion for this and it shows, for a non peruvian (im assuming) its so commendable!!! Keep it up 🎉🎉🎉

[@ya2a16]

Thank you so much for making this pure beautifully calm streaming video , so simple and informative ,l love the way you making your videos , no fancy graphics , it feels like I am reading a book ,it really remembered me of my geography and history classes at school , where only pictures were available 😊👏🏻🥰

[@Rncko]

16:50 cursed image of alien spouting tentacles...... (I was watching on 240p a bit further away from screen and had to turned it up to see clearly)

[@Muonium1]

They had internally glazed ceramic potable water distribution pipes...in the 16th century?? ...IN PERU??? How did that even work?

[@JonathanMaddox]

They baked clay in ovens to make ceramics IN PERU!

[@magnetospin]

This channel always finds topics that I never knew were interesting.

[@trincocorruptor3236]

Sadly almos every city depending on Andes range for water supply its already suffering the climatic change. Here in Argentina the situation is dire for every province depending on water from ice melting in the mountains. You can see fast desertification with your own eyes year after year

[@Kanitoxx]

snow lines are higher and higher and less and less water is avaliable for the big cities... I live in Santiago and the drough have lasted for over 10 years

[@maxheadrom3088]

Guano is also the reason why the US has so many islands in the Pacific Ocean and it also propelled the country outwards in what has now clearly become an imperial movement.

[@fldon2306]

Guano all right!

[@dan8910100]

cry more

[@IHO2691]

Wow, great video and channel. Such a random subject. I am infatuated with Lima and will be moving there soon. Thanks for the information.

[@alexciocca4451]

When in Lima I was told it never rained just fog to provide moisture a cab driver told me that ?

[@luispereztasso]

That's correct, it never rains here

[@oardude]

It drizzles

[@BobSpector-up7lw]

Thanks!

[@limalady1]

I’m from Barrios Altos and very proud to be Peruvian! Thank you for the excellent documentary, very informative. I will share with my family and friends

[@novostranger]

Saludos desde Perú! You should talk more about our country, I'm interested on a video about the Andean development in my country.

[@medite7133]

TODOS LOS PERUANOS DEBERIAMOS VER ESTO XD

[@oardude]

Creo que a los niños y adolescentes los llevan de paseo a la atarjea. Ahí los datos son más exactos.

[@besantbhakta4015]

Thanks

[@ronalerquinigoagurto555]

I always follow your content about tech advances and I am from peru. Chinesse investment is strong nowadays, they are constructing a port in chancay, the biggest in southamerican pacific cost, a few kilometers far in the north of Lima. There is a plan for a transoceanic railway that will link this port with brazil so that brazilian can export soja to China.

[@STR82DVD]

Every time I watch content from this Channel I learn something new.

[@tiberio1352]

*Como un aparte, me causa mucha preocupación como LIma se ha llenado de EDIFICIOS HABITACIONALES. Con lo que ha pasado ayer en Taiwan....solo puedo decir que Lima es un juego de dados. El SEIS cae en cualquier momento y sera una CATASTROFE muy dificil que el país supere.*

[@Winston_Chu]

when are you going to cover vietnams $12 billion dollar corruption bank scandal that would be interesting 😮😮

[@dirremoire]

No offense, but banking scandals are a dime a dozen and super boring.

[@patricialorenasalazarflore3920]

Interesting for you, don't speak for others

[@rg1924]

Vietnam is the shining light of development economics, any insights on risk would be awesome

[@robertj.thirlby8166]

As a regular traveller to Lima, thoroughly enjoyed your video.

[@raychandler2757]

This presentation is the channel at it's best.

[@TheDunningKrugerEffectisReal]

17:40 I thought it read Cholera as in Cholo xD

[@mrJety89]

Reminds me of the river Temarc, in winter.

[@matthewheath7839]

What a bunch of amazing people!

[@AlistairSaldanha]

Please could you do an episode on why Bangalore in India is short of water? You could start with a report by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore on why Bangalore is dry. I'm not sure they're right.

[@gregrussell7821]

Been in Santa Anita, Andahuilas market are for half a year. Water...people waste it. Water is so important but in reality...people are not highly educated, and common sense is rare as well. So most of those selling fruit in the street wouldn't know what water conversation is in the first place. Daily, every second of every day, water is wasted (by our neighbors) wetting down the dust on the dirt in front of their house...and there is no government or city leadership regulations on water use. I know for a fact that it's countries like Peru, that lack leadership and a honest attempt at democracy -if corruption wasn't so visual in so many types of work. I love Peru, but things are getting worse, not better for the teenagers, young leaders today who have no direction from their lost parents who are not educated either. Water is more precious than gold and we need to start thinking this here in Lima and elsewhere . Fore -there come a day when you will thirst.

[@tulsatrash]

Thank you for making this.

[@josebazocosta9341]

Good video. But, some import omissions: 1. Lima's water comes from the Andes, in 3 rivers. Chillón, Rimac and Lurín. Río Mala, couldn't also be included 2. A very high percentage of the water, during the Andes rainy season, is lost to the sea. 3. Nowadays, a considerable amount of water is being recycled for irrigation purposes 4. There's a large amount of wells. Don't need to dig much to find water. In Mamacona, we had numerous wells, with water with less than 2 meters deep of digging. Finally the settlements/ invasions, are called BARRIADAS, not barrios... they are the equivalent to the favelas of Brazil. Thanks for your video

[@miguelcisneros1825]

Raimac? Llaulla? Calao? My god…

[@louisxD]

I'm an immigrant living in Lima, this was really informative.

[@louisxD]

And just to give some context, my utility bill is like 70-80% electricity, and 20-30% water supply

[@andude3]

Finally another water video! Keep em coming, if you don't mind.

[@lakrids-pibe]

It is crazy that water consumption is so high, when at the same time, there are so many people, who do not have their most basic needs covered. Rich people being arrogant selfish fools as always.

[@sebastianamado1402]

Yes!!! The Peruvian Water in Lima is to celebrate of 500 years. in 1962, was founded Is Called Sedapal from 1981. but unfortunately in 2017, El Niño Costero of 2016-2017 the rain of huaycos was detecting of drinking water and water restrictions and service outages was gonna starting now on sedapal for containing of huayco's river. btw, greetings for all, my name is sebastian amado (22 years old) and i'm here from Lima, Peru. See ya and Peace!

[@jontalbot1]

Very well made. We privatized water in the UK and it has been a disaster. It has resulted in higher charges, insufficient investment, polluted rivers and sea but high salaries and big returns for shareholders and private equity.

[@diegosatori5718]

only 3 minutes in and this video is amazing, cant believe a english video had to explain this and not a spanish one the only issue is the pronunciation of some places but maybe thats too much to ask for

[@klausnielsen1537]

I like how you often surprise me with a in depth historical walkthrough of specific challenges and solutions from around the world.

[@giannipaz8632]

Wow!! Love this. Thank you for teaching me thr history of my country through the lens of water!! It all makes perfect sense!! ❤🤍❤️

[@teodoricoterry839]

Cool, I know that city well. The thing that is interested, El Comercio, just published an article on this same subject.

[@cv990a4]

Sendero Luminoso the Shining Path. One of those names out of history - really bad people, extremely violent. The Wikipedia page for them says the even their successors have tried to separate themselves from the Shining Path of the Guzman era. In 1975, as a kid, I spent three days in Lima on the way down to Santiago. I remember it being grey. It was the first time I ever saw kids begging and that really affected me. The contrast between rich and poor was stark.

[@dexterminador]

Yeah, I remember exactly every horrible scene of The Shining written by Stephen King, directed by Stanley Kubrick starring a weirdly smiling Jack Nicholson holding a tomahawk hatchet. He indeed ended as in One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest and in the very last scene the red indian scaped into the forest.

[@josecampos2127]

Fantastic work!

[@shepardsinsequence]

Maybe do a deep dive on the Chinese population in Mexicali…. It’s hellishly interesting

[@percyjuarez7082]

Lima Walls were build against "Attackers"??? NO!!! they were built against Pirates! anglosaxon Pirates!!!! Spain did not backed Chile in the war. its was England!!!!

[@hrsmrt9292]

No one talking about how seawater can be one of their consistent, infinite like sources of water aside of more water wells or depending on mountain springs & glaciers, But desalination is expensive... for oceanfront city.... it doesn't extend to a digging and piping efforts

[@abelardoruiz5544]

That's a nice desert....we totally should make a huge megacity here....we are genius.

[@gus473]

Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles..... ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

[@abelardoruiz5544]

@@gus473 exactly my point.

[@1ycan-eu9ji]

Well originally, where Lima was founded, it was mostly valleys, not a desert, Lima wasn't meant to go beyond it's walls, corrupt politicians not wanting to decentralize caused them to take out the walls and let the city expand without control

[@celdur4635]

@@1ycan-eu9ji People prefer Lima because the other cities have terrible government. Don't blame Lima, blame your own local politicians.

[@leoF_0312]

​@@celdur4635 average south Peruvian: "I'll pretend I never read that. Of course the guilty for the lack of the province infrastructure is the 'peripheral' limeño. Horray for Evo Morales" 🤮

[@pancitoepic2184]

great video, as a peruvian this is very accurate

[@JhonatanTirado]

This is a very comprehensive summary of the history of water in Lima, Peru. As a side note, Alan Garcia became President in 2006 despite his terrible first government in 1985, because his opponent was Ollanta Humala, a radical leftist who wanted Peru to become like Hugo Chavez's socialist Venezuela. Most people were afraid of Humala, so they voted for Garcia.

[@its_jjk]

This deserves 10x as many views

[@caot89]

Interesting video about my home city’s water problem. Pronunciation of names in Spanish could be improved a lot though.

[@sandorclegane6715]

That was sobering.

[@hozlopez]

Great video. A few mistakes. The Fujimori decade in government wasnt intrinsically corrupt as the peruvian traditional “ruling class” would like you to believe. When Fujimori became president of Peru, the country was a failed state, much worse than Argentina or any other country in SouthAmerica. The incompetency and corruption of the ruling class to “rule” is what brought political chaos, and the violence of the Shining Path, only comparable to the Kmer Rouge in Cambodia. After The decade of Fujimori, Peru was a rising economic powerhouse, the country was safe for tourists to visit, and foreign investment to arrive. Its currency, once embroiled in hiperinflationary and devaluation cycles, like Argentina now, is to this day the most stable in SouthAmerica. Not many peruvians are humble to recognise the great assistance and cooperation our country received from our Asian brothers, in particular and because of Fujimori, the great help provided by Japan. Incas and Japanese like brothers, we are children of the sun. And now with the great help of our chinese brothers that are building the greatest port in South America. Best regards.

[@pierQRzt180]

More water history please! Water is very important

[@richardmakiya7188]

El expresidente Belaunde siempre decia que la gente debe de vivir donde haya agua y el agua está en la selva, por lo que en su gobierno incentivó la construccion de carreteras en la selva. Al parecer esa vision de futuro se ha perdido entre nuestros gobernantes... y lo pagaremos caro.

[@leoF_0312]

De hecho él propuso cambiar la capital a Ciudad Constitución, un pueblo en la selva, que si no es de Junín es de Ucayali (y la capital, si se muda, debería ser a Huancayo o en la selva de Junín, porque sería algo absurdo ponerla en el norte y aún más que esté en sur)

[@richardmakiya7188]

@@leoF_0312 qué debe de pasar en nuestro pais para que nuestra clase politica piense de forma estrategica?

[@JonSmith-ov6oy]

Cuántas megaciudades hay en la jungla en el mundo?

[@1ycan-eu9ji]

Nobody is being intentionally racist when calling an asian person "chino" same thing as anyone from the middle east being called an "arabe", or north american (be it american or canadian a gringo). It's not bad intentioned, a lot of people don't have great education so it's often just a case of them calling you whatever they aproximate you to.

[@migovas1483]

Is the US perspective, where everyone is sensitive..🤣

[@italorossid]

@@migovas1483 Peruvian idiosyncrasy has a big component of reducing people to a single word in conversation. It can be friendly, funny, poetic, endearing, neutral. If it gets insulting it's called out.

[@majejejenta]

it is racist, chinese as well as other asian people were brought here via slavement and/or human trafficking, and that history remains attached to that word, "chino". Fujimori, a japanese-descendant may have appropriated it for political reasons, but the pejorative intention remains. It's reductive, alienating, and shuts up any chance of acknowledging the cultural heritage of the widely distinct cultures that any asian has.

[@alanway5]

so which city one should had been the ideal capital? with tons of water , easy to get?

[@dexterminador]

For instance in Switzerland, Austria, Canada, New Zealand, Russia or in any Scandinavian country.

[@fldon2306]

Iquitos? Peru’s largest city in the Selva/jungle and on Amazon River. But there is no roads or railroads to it, only boat or aircraft!

[@dexterminador]

@@fldon2306 Well, there is already MANAOS in Brazil with a better advanced and developed infrastructure...

[@fldon2306]

@@dexterminadorTrue there… But was keeping scope on Peru and that whole Pope Alexander VI thing!

[@WillFuI]

I could be miss remembering but I don’t think Peru is in Asia

[@gjsoriano1]

He does videos outside of Asia from time to time which makes his channel a real gem. It is great to see him starting topics about south america. Hopefully, he'll do also something about African countries.

[@leoF_0312]

Well, it's a South American country with a "large" asian community (eastern asian), the other one must be Brazil

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin2206]

Funny you post this the same day i return to Lima from the Amazon forest

[@bankfinanzas6348]

Greetings from Peru 🇵🇪✌️

[@DavidCelestialKnight]

I am Peruvian. I wanted to add some of my point of view. I think the problem of water in Lima is because it is because just one company can sell water here, SEDAPAL is a company that belongs to the states, it is very inefficient, and doesn't exist other competitor to sell water in Perú. Many leaders in Perú, talk about the possibility to permit more companies, especially someones that extract water from the sea. We in Perú have water but it is in the jungle, and it is so difficult to carry this water to the great cities to the Coast, because we have a Highlands, which is very difficult to cross through it. Even we have this geographic problems, we have irrigated our desertic coast, and we produce food, we are the top producers of many fruits and vegetables, such as Blueberry or Avocados.

Come to Perú

[@diegoseminariodecol3863]

Great work !

[@AaronSchwarz42]

Water is heavy thus expensive to move large distances

[@oardude]

Agua doesnt have tilde in spanish. ÁGUA with a tick over the a is mispelled. Wonder if you made the first ÁGUA PARA TODOS poster because even our politicians can spell water in our native tongue.

[@Suntoria236]

0:57 Bizarro 😂😂😂

[@hangdog7094]

One of the best vacations i ever had was in Lima. Just stay in the wealthy areas however

[@dexterminador]

Yeah, with a lot of snow, naturally for skiing

[@italorossid]

@@dexterminador the grass in Lima is good to relax, especially looking at the Pacific from the cliffs. The cliffside parks in Miraflores and Barranco, surely.

[@sativagirl1885]

How can unemployed Peruvians afford Unadulterated Marching Powder?

[@Kirb]

How did you get interested in the water supply history of my random SA city?

[@aberroa1955]

Looks like Asianometry already told everything about Asia) So, now about renaming to Worldometry?

[@JackWse]

I'm sitting here, eating Peruvian corn and just realized I'm watching a video on Peru at the same time lol Go figure 🙂

[@dexterminador]

Wowww, amazing! Don't miss the Powerball.

[@mickytejadapenaloza3686]

Greetings from Perú