for its rebuilding after the earthquake, the government had to demolish the damaged houses. after that, the city was planned with a modern physiognomy like wide streets and avenues with central gardens. colonial architecture doesn't exist, it was modernized in its own andean style of gabled roofs. the city has a modern and planned design, made for gunther-seminario company. despite that the city grows in a disorganized way. in the other hand, the city had a great commercial movement, and good-quality touristic services, so the fast process of urbanization, had the consequence of irregular neighbourhoods.