Peruvian Gardens

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Peruvian landscape in Lima. It describes the development of landscape concepts and their implementation in Peru considering their history. It describes the current situation of landscape in Peru distinguishing between parks on the coast, the highlands and the jungle, taking examples and describing the most representative parks and gardens of each region with their own climatic characteristics and cultural diversity. This chapter also describes the development and adoption of urban bio-orchard concepts in Peru, specially in Lima. It proposes new options for the development of green areas in the twenty-first century considering botanical, agronomic, socio-cultural and landscaping aspects. The chapter makes possible, with practical examples of the implementations of new green areas in Peru to make Lima and other cities of Peru livable and sustainable, and contribute in this way to the Sustainable Development Goal 11. The section that presents the Bio-orchards provides practical examples to ensure the food security, healthy and accessible food and contributes in this way to the Sustainable Development Goal 2 and 12. Finally, it describes and analyzes the main botanical species used in the history of the gardens in Lima.