Peru: Towards a redistribution of the andean rural population ? Changes in Peasant Society and the Evolution of the Spatial Organization Abstract The preliminary data of the 1993 census offer new elements for the analysis of the transformations in the distribution of the rural population in Peru in the last thirty years. In spite of the migratory movements to the cities and to the Amazonian forest, the rural population has stayed in some regions, particularly in the Andes, with less change in comparison to others. From a national scale, this situation gives the impression of a sort of inertia. However, if this situation is observed from a closer perspective, it is possible to perceive the strategies of the peasant population which is invol...