Arequipa (Arequi`pa) , a city in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1536, in a fruitful valley of the Andes, 8000 ft. above the sea, 30 m. inland; is much subject to earthquakes, and was almost destroyed by one in 1868.
Population (circa 1900) given as 35,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Areop`agus * A`rés