Published on : Friday, January 17, 2014
A total of 307,811 foreigners entered Peru in November 2013, a 3.8 percent rise against the same month a year earlier, according to the country’s national statistics institute INEI.
INEI said that most visitors came from neighboring Chile, which accounted for 44% of the total, followed by the US (10.6%), Ecuador (7.8%), Bolivia (5.4%), Colombia (5.2%), Brazil (4.7%), and Spain (4.2%). Of the total, 53.7 percent were men.
Between January and November 2013, the number of foreigners entering Peru rose by 9.1% compared to the same period the year before.
Meanwhile, foreign citizens who entered the country with work visas totaled 3,930 in November, a 15.4 percent increase compared to the year-earlier month.
In the first eleven months of the year, the number rose by 13.2 percent year-on-year.
Colombian workers represented the largest slice of the pie, with 15.6% of the total. Following Colombia are Chile (14.8%), Argentina (12.9%), and Spain (10.1%).
The data released also showed that Peruvians leaving the country totaled 228,775 in November, up 2.3% from the same month a year earlier.
The most popular international destinations for Peruvian travelers were Chile (47.9 percent), Bolivia (11,8%), the United States (10,8%), Ecuador (6,4%), Argentina (3,9%), Brazil (3,3%), Mexico (3,2%), Colombia (2,9%), and Panama (2,8%).
Most people either leaving or entering the country went through the migrations control at the Jorge Chavez international airport in Lima or the Santa Rosa border control station in Tacna.
Tags: Foreign arrivals, Peru
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