Typical meals

Comidas típicas
✓ Within the variety of typical foods,
the spicy guinea pig, pachamanca,
MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF
locro de gallina, juane de gallina, HUANUCO TOURIST
inchicapi and patarashca stand out.
DESTINATIONS
IN PERU

Typical drinks

✓ Drinks such as aguajina (from the

aguaje fruit), chapo (based on ripe
bananas), camu camu soda,
masato and cane guarapo are
classic; in addition to medicinal
drinks such as chuchuhuasi, cat's
claw and seven roots.

“Traveling first leaves you

speechless and then turns you
into a storyteller”

“Life is either an adventure or it is

nothing”

Huánuco
✓ Kotosh
History
It was founded on August 15, 1539 under
the name of the very noble and loyal city of
the Knights of León de Huánuco, by the
Spanish commander Gómez de Alvarado y
Contreras, after holding some meetings
with Illathupa, Goméz de Alvarado, on
behalf of of the King of Spain and the
Governor Francisco Pizarro, founded the
city of Huánuco, in the same area that was
occupied by the famous Inca city -
Yarowilca de Wanuko in the current
province of Dos de Mayo.
✓ Tingo María National Park: It is the second
Location
The department of Huánuco is located in
the central eastern part of the country,
covering an area of 37,266 km2, which
represents 2.9 percent of the national
territory. It has two natural regions, the
sierra with 22,150 km2 and the ceja de
selva and selva zone, with 15,116 km2.
Tourist places ✓ Lagoon of Miracles: Originated from
the water seepage that springs from
Belén Hill and reaches a depth of up to
Temple: Kotosh is an
8 meters. It forms mirrors in its waters
archaeological site, and is composed of a
and you can see a beautiful landscape.
series of overlapping buildings with 6
Likewise, it has an area of approximately
periods of continuous occupation dating
20 hectares, being the largest and at
from the Late Archaic to the Early
high risk of flooding during the winter.
Intermediate.
✓ Cueva de las Owls: The cave is
protected natural area established in Peru.
inhabited by owls and bats. The
It houses a biological diversity typical of the
entrance is 20 meters high and 25
high jungle region, as well as a very
meters wide.5 It is located in the
particular landscape beauty. One of the
Sleeping Beauty Mountain range of the
geographical characteristics that
Tingo María National Park, 6 km from
distinguishes the park is the formation of a
the city of Tingo María.
mountain range that resembles a lying
woman and is known as "Sleeping Beauty".