The otuzco windows are set 4 miles 7 km outside the city of cajamarca. The exact date when the site was established is unknown, though some. History and geologic overview of the yanacocha mining. When you get here, youll swear that this was once a city built into a cliffthe holes are shaped like squares and look similar to windows. Mapping colonial quechua through trial interpretations in. Download aylambo cajamarca categories view all login register. Cajamarca is located in the northern highlands in peru, in the department of cajamarca. Report aylambo cajamarca please fill this form, we will try to respond as soon as possible. Held every year in february or march, it will be from 10 february 201814 february 2018. Cajamarca article about cajamarca by the free dictionary. However, the holes are actually 600yearold burial sites from the cajamarca culture. Discover otuzco, cajamarca, peru with the help of your friends. The most important town in the northern highlands, its mushroom field of redtileroofed abodes surely confesses a secret desire to cling to its village roots. Visit windows of otuzco on your trip to cajamarca or peru.
Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. It is approximately 2,720 m 8,900 ft above sea level and has a population of about 160,000 people. The area with rare formations from volcanic rock served as a funerary site for preinca civilizations and as a storage to the ancient inca. Discovery and recognition of the yanacocha district as a belt of northeasttrending, nearsurface, high sulfidationtype epithermal gold deposits with strong supergene oxidation was made over a fouryear. Cajamarca is a highway junction and the trading center of an agricultural region sugarcane, cotton, tobacco, rice, dairy cattlebreeding. The capital of this province is the city of otuzco political division.
Download as pptx, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. Northeastern circuit map including chiclayo lambayeque trujillo and cajamarca. The exact date when the site was established is unknown, though some ceramics found here have been dated back to 1400 bc, with the site currently thought to have been in use. On this tour, travel in the comfort of a private vehicle and enjoy the undivided attention of your private guide as you take in the citys best bits. However, the holes are actually 600yearold burial sites from the cajamarca. A dainty but strongwilled metropolis, cajamarca is cradled in a languid valley and stonewalled by brawny mountains in every direction. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. On llanguil hill, only 8 km northeast from the city of cajamarca, there are living rock excavations, appearing at a distance to be a multiple array of windows. This website or its thirdparty tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy.
See the atmospheric carved structure of windows of otuzco, an ancient necropolis built and used by the people of cajamarca. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Cajamarca travel northern highlands, peru lonely planet. The highland city of cajamarca is renowned for its colonial architecture and inca heritage.
The area with rare formations from volcanic rock served as a. Church and museum of art religious of san francisco. It has enterprises producing powdered milk, butter, cheese, and leather goods and is a center for the production of handmade straw hats. This page provides an overview of otuzco maps in the maphill world atlas. Pdf mapping colonial quechua through trial interpretations. See otuzco photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of otuzco in peru. Do not touch the stone as it is not solid avoid destroying it like otuzco. Tijeral coronado for more multimedia, look at leptasthenura pileata on wikimedia commons.
At this point in time i already stayed in peru for over a month, as there is just so much to do here. I still wanted to go on a cargo boat to float down the amazon in between the locals and their cattle, see the peruvian beaches and do all the treks there are left in the fabulous cordilleras. The most important town in the northern highlands, its mushroom field. The following 42 files are in this category, out of 42 total. Description download diagnostico cajamarca comments. Going there by colectivo takes 1 hour more than to otuzco no direct combi from cajamarca, go to otuzco first and then take another combi in the village, by the school, to combaya and goes through beautiful landscape. The province is divided into ten districts, which are.
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