Programa Puno-Tambopata Records

The Puno-Tambopata Program (PPT) was established in 1955, it was organized and implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Indigenous Affairs with the participation of the Ministries of Public Health and Social Assistance, Education and Agriculture in cooperation with the Andean Mission of the United Nations. The program took place in four rural areas of the department of Puno, in the areas of greatest geographic concentration of the Peruvian highlands, near Lake Titicaca, and the Alto Tambopata valley in the mountains. The program had four main centers of operations: Chucuito (Puno Province), Camicachi (Chucuito Province), Taraco (Huancané Province), and San Juan del Oro (Sandia Province). As part of the program, several anthropological, geographical, agricultural, and public health studies were carried out in different parts of Puno, such as; Ilave, Villurcuni, Vilquechico, Taraco, Chucuito Province, Amantaní, and others.

The Puno-Tambopata Program (PPT) had four main goals: the economic rehabilitation of the indigenous farmers through the introduction of new techniques in agricultural exploitation and the promotion of handicrafts and rural industries, the improvement of general living conditions through the adequate use of the farmer's skills and available resources, the professional training of the labor force that migrates to other parts of the country, and the assistance to spontaneous migrations to the sub-tropical valleys of the region.

In 1961, the program transferred its direction and executive responsibility to Peruvian officials and was included in the "National Plan for the Integration of the Indigenous Population (PNIPA)", which its main objective was the "integration" of the indigenous population to the "national life." The PNIPA program ended in 1968 at the end of the Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde.