Introduction

Cajamarca es una ciudad andina, es la capital y mayor ciudad del departamento de Cajamarca y está ubicada en una hermosa y tranquila zona rural andina en el valle del mismo nombre, entre 2.300 y 3.500 metros sobre el nivel del mar y tiene el mejor clima la sierra peruana. Es el departamento con la mayor tasa de forestación en la sierra, además de ser la región que produce la mayor cantidad de ganado vacuno y los productos lácteos en el Perú. Su economía, que también se basa en la agricultura y la minería (que tiene la mayor mina de oro de Sudamérica, Yanacocha), también se basa en uno de los recursos más productivos de turismo.

Entre sus atractivos turísticos, Cajamarca tiene numerosos ejemplos de la arquitectura española colonial religiosa, bellos paisajes, sitios arqueológicos prehispánicos y la increíble ciudad de Baños del Inca. Donde podrá relajarse en sus aguas termales.

History

La historia de Cajamarca se inicia con la civilización pre-Inca Caxamarca, que tuvo en este valle su centro cultural, hasta que fue dominada por el imperio Inca, que construyó una ciudad importante, en la misma que el Inca Atahualpa y el conquistador español Francisco Pizarro encontraron el 16 de noviembre, 1532; fecha que marcó el inicio del declive del Imperio Inca y el comienzo de la conquista, la colonización española y la transculturación.

"Los viajeros en busca de campiñas o huellas de la historia preciosas, sin duda, encontrar lo que están buscando en este entorno idílico Andino"

Localization

El departamento de Cajamarca límites en el norte con Ecuador, al sur: La Libertad, al este: con las Amazonas y al oeste con Piura. Cuenta con 13 provincias y 128 distritos sorprendentes.

Traditions

Men used to work (grammar: used to) in the agriculture and women used to knit with wool of the sheep. They have a variety of food and the best restaurants where people can enjoy the most typical dishes of the city such as: cuy con papa, chicharron con mote, Cecina shilpida, caldo verde, etc

Touristic attractions

There are too many (grammar: countable) places to enjoy and have fun in the countryside of Cajamarca, you can visit the most exciting (grammar: superlative) forest of stones Los Frailones in the place of Cumbemayo, in an impressive rock formation. This is 20 kilometres south west of the city, and would have been a water cult ceremonial center. It is thought to be very old, and has an aqueduct which is around eight kilometres in length, and carries water to the Pacific Ocean through a canal, carved in the stone in several sections, and is 30cm wide and 50 cm deep. There are some interesting petroglyphs at this site, and a kind of oratory, as well as some caves in which some very old engravings have also been discovered. (present perfect)

Granja Porcón (Porcón Farm), a dairy farm where travelers can take part in farming chores. Or the hacienda La Colpa is a famous farm for its cows which are still called by name at milking time. In the Cajamarca countryside and around the city, are also located hotels and accommodation centers that offer programs to enjoy the environment attractive for relaxation and others for medicinal treatments. Apart from those magical places we have ventanillas de otuzco, cathedral church, santa apoloña hill, the archaeological center kuntur wasi, llacanora waterfalls, namora, jesus and baños del inca.

“I wish, I could visit those interesting places” (wish)

folklore

Cajamarca has its biggest (grammar superlative) popular expression in the Carnivals, Carnival time in Cajamarca is among the most famous festivals in February or March in Peru. The townspeople are an easy-going, (adjective) amiable folk, and carnival time involves entire neighborhoods and institutions until the end of the festival. Each neighbourhood organizes its own comparsas and "patrullas", who (relative) dance tirelessly around "the Unsha", a tree that (relative) is decorated with gifts, at the end the participants symbolically bury Ño Carnavalón, the king of the carnival. The celebrations go on for around a month, but there are eight main days, when participants are often doused with water. People have been doing (perfect continuous) these activities for years.

“If I stayed in Cajamarca, I would participate in the carnival”

Do you know what you should do? questions within questions

If you will go to Cajamarca, First you should visit the city in which the Inca and Spanish cultures were fused and learned (past simple) to live together, and that has one of the most important (superlatives) examples of colonial architectural heritage in Peru.