Exploring the Largest Piracy Market in Peru - GAMARRA - Peru vlog 🇵🇪

Today we visit Gamarra (Lima's garment district)! Prices are low, products are fake, food is plentiful; but all in all, it was an interesting experience!
I highly recommend this place to get your Abiblas and Mike clothing!

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Gamarra is the largest clothing and textile market — if not the largest informal market — in Latin America. If you like to shop till you drop, Gamarra is a must-see for clothing aficionados. I recommend it as an off-the-beaten path activity you won’t find in other tourist guides.

Up to 40% of Latin American businesses are informal; they don’t report to the government or pay taxes. This percentage was declining as Peru’s government tackles informality, and it seemed every Gamarra vendor we patronize issues a formal receipt and even accepts Visa.

But the influx of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, many of whom work in Gamarra, has probably pushed the percentage of informality back up above 40%. So visiting Gamarra is a fun way to see the informal economy in action for economic nerds like me.

Located in the La Victoria district, Gamarra’s 20,000 textile shops, manufacturers, contractors and retailers employ over 100,000 people. The Gamarra economy is estimated at over $1.4 billion a year. Taking up 24 square blocks, the area receives an estimated 100,000 visitors a day. Most of them visit during the weekends. If you don’t like crowds, skip Gamarra altogether.

At Gamarra you can find everything: t-shirts, jean, socks and underwear, lingerie, maternity dresses, suits, tuxedos and bridal dresses, shoes, accessories, sports jerseys, hats, traditional Peruvian fabrics like alpaca, imitation replicas of designer brands and more. Seeing all of Gamarra would take weeks. The prices are low, and be prepared to haggle. Being a foreigner, you’ll be quoted higher prices than normal.

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There are high-quality clothes in Gamarra. But the problem is that, with 20,000 vendors, finding one is like searching for a needle in a haystack. My recommendation is to avoid the guys who will swarm you in the street with flyers, business cards and coupons to their specific stores. The quality vendors don’t send people into the street.

You’ll see various independent designers in my photos below. You just have to explore, but some interesting ones I’ve found were and Affliction style of men’s t-shirts but feature, instead of skulls, images of the Peruvian indigenous kings and gods. Above is a surf-culture designer similar to Ripcurl or Quiksilver.

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