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Because of its proximity to the Strait of Panama, and its relatively easy connection with the ports on the coast, northern Peru developed a peculiar economy within the country as a whole. Its characteristics include an active commercial agriculture and livestock sector, a fluid high jungle-highland-coastal communication, favored by a less rugged Andean mountain range than in other parts of the territory, and an important process of settlement of foreign immigrants, among which the Asians stood out. In this book, nine authors, including archaeologists, historians, economists and sociologists, undertook the challenge of describing the major milestones of this history, beginning in pre-Hispanic times, up to the present. This is the first of a series of several volumes that will reconstruct the characteristics of the economic evolution of Peru’s major regions.