Cajamarca
Serene valleys, mountains with gentle slopes, wide and bright countryside: Cajamarca, historical, symbolic, endearing, rather than the encounter between the final conqueror of the Inca and Tawantinsuyu. Francisco Pizarro and Atahualpa, face to face, the Andean west and perhaps the birth of that country called Peru, a nation of mixed race, multicultural, just different.
Current Cajamarca, Cajamarca evocative because its main square, then features of Andean air Hispanics today, the Son of the Sun-powerful and untouchable, was captured by a group of bearded men with strange weapons and armor dazzling that riders enormous beasts, so different from the llamas and alpacas grazing on the pampas.
Walking through the historic center of an ancient city. By observing their churches and mansions, to tour its streets and squares, the whispers were heard from yesterday, then again on 16 November 1532 and Francisco Pizarro took prisoner the ruler of the largest South American empire, to the astonishment of a crowd does not react, not to defend the fallen sovereign, which does not face these men came from "another world".
The square of the Fourth of Rescue, the only Inca construction which is preserved in the city. Prison leader was a captive, the compound that was filled with powerful ruler Silver (twice) and gold (once) with the promise of freedom to leave it in Spanish. But they failed, it was not desirable, that could interfere with their plans of conquest.
Atahualpa, the victorious man who came to hang out in the city of gold after a few days rest at the Baths of the Inca-hot thermal pools to relax bodies still exhausted, was sentenced to stick, and on the square of its capture in the same urban space that travel hundreds of people today, you will be executed. It was the twilight of the Son of Sun Late Tawantinsuyu.
Days after the death on August 29 of 1533, the small army left the Spanish conquest of the great empire. Since then, it was an important Inca administrative center, it became a historical reference essential, because in Villa San Antonio de Cajamarca, and the Iberian christened in 1566 - was the meeting-for good or evil, of two civilizations .
Now Cajamarca (2.720 msmn) is the capital of the region of the same name and most important city in the Sierra Norte del Peru. Located 856 kilometers from Lima and boasts of its mild climate and generous fields.
Historic Cultural Heritage by the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1986, the city proudly displays its baroque churches and temples, monuments evidencing its colonial past and give it an air of distinction to its streets and squares, an atmosphere of placid calm that seems to envelop the traveler, especially from the viewpoint of Santa Apolonia.
A look at Cajamarca-urban and rural, from a vantage point that would have been a place of worship the dead or a lookout inca. Climbing Santa Apolonia is almost a must for visitors busy. Since its height is observed on urban design in its real magnitude, and also to the wonderful countryside that surrounds or absorbed.
Known as the "land of milk" for their varied and delicious dairy products (milk, cheese and the typical white delicacy), the city invites you to know your surroundings and discover their barns and fields and, incidentally, its rich Pre-Columbian legacy.
The imprint and pre-stop to admire the Otuzco - unique niches carved in high cliffs, in the Necropolis Combayo-close to downtown, the Aqueduct of Cumbemayo, channels remarkable stone as "jewels hydraulic engineering "or in the complex Kuntur Wasi ceremonial center dating from 1100 BC
Celendín traditional peoples, and Chota Cajabamba, nature reserves and National Parks and National Shrine Cutervo Tabaconas-Namballe and innovative tourism programs in the Farm Porcon vivid and communities of Laguna Sulloscocha Encañada and complement the tourist offer, full of activity and enjoy the holidays.
Cajamarca invited to meet her with all your senses. Here we look at, touch, tasting and ... also dances, especially during the carnival in February, the largest and most colorful in the country. A unique explosion of joy, with Corsican, comparsas clambakes and patrols to stop the sadness and impose the reign of joy, the overflowing of Jolgorio free of concerns.
Thus Cajamarca, a land of historical events, great countryside and a fervent spirit.
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