The town maintains close commercial links with Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil and with the cities connected by the South trainway, as well as with the port of Matarani. Within its industrial activity the manufactured products and the textile production of wool of camelids. Īrequipa is also an important industrial and commercial center of Peru, and is considered as the second industrial city of the country. The city had a nominal GDP of US$9,445 million, equivalent to US$10,277 per capita (US$18,610 per capita PPP) in 2015, making Arequipa the city with the second-highest economic activity in Peru. Its metropolitan area integrates twenty-one districts, including the foundational central area, which it is the seat of the city government. It is the second most populated city in Peru, after Lima, with an urban population of 1,008,290 inhabitants according to the 2017 national census. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru". Arequipa ( Spanish pronunciation: Aymara and Quechua: Ariqipa) is a city and capital of province and the eponymous department of Peru.
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