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Biography
Marco Arana son of two teachers, and the second of four siblings.

His mother Alcina Zegarra, from Pataz province in La Libertad, was  a teacher in a mining camp and his father, César Arana was born in Cajamarca city in which he work s a rural teacher.

Studies
His studies elementary studies were in the Escuela de los hermanos maristas in Cajamarca and high school in the Colegio Experimental Antonio Guillermo Urrelo. He participated since his youth in the christian youth communities, developing social work activities.

In 1979, when he was 17, he enters to the Seminario Mayor José de Cajamarca in which he started his education as priest, and while doing this, he iniciated studies in sociology in the Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca, speciallizing in the rural development areas

Marco Arana goes to Lima in 1985 to continue his studies in the seminary and in 1989 he finishs his stidues in theology in the Instituto de Estudios Teológicos Juan XXIII. During this period he lived in the San Juan de Lurigancho in the south cone of Lima and in 1990 is finilly named priest.

In 1994 he had the chance to travel to Roma to study Theology in the Universitá Gregoriana di Roma, in which he graduated cum laude.

He studied post grade in Sociology (19997-1998) specializing in Public pollocies in the Pntificia Universidad Católica del Perú due to a scolarship. His thesis was the first about socio-enviromental conflicts which allowed him to gradutate again with honors-

The next year (1999) he studied courses of water and health in the Ingeneering Deparment of the university of Cajamarca.

In 2002 travels to the United States to complete his career with a term in social Managment in the Interamerican Institute of Social development in Washington.