Economics of Cusco

Cuzco is a small city with most of the comforts you are accustomed to: cash machines, supermarkets (though small), lots of restuarants and hotels, wonderful sites to see, and beautiful remnants of its past. It’s a beautiful,small city. It is mostly market-oriented where you can walk to many places.

The food is local mostly: papa, chuno, aji, arroz, and the standard fare: beef, chicken (they love chicken a la rotisserie), some fish, and pizza! Farming provides the livelihood for the majority of Peruvians, some of whom remain outside the money economy. Their main crop is cocoa leaves. The chief farm commodities produced are cotton, sugarcane, coffee, wheat, rice, corn, and barley.