Chachapoyas is a
city in northern Peru at an elevation of 2,235 meters. The city
has a population of approximately 20,279 people. Situated in the
mountains far from the Peruvian coast, Chachapoyas remains fairly
isolated from other regions of Peru. Hikers and adventurers can
visit the Chachapoya region. There is service by bus to Chiclayo
and Cajamarca. The bus from Chiclayo is an overnight bus but to
Cajamarca due to the difficult and winding roads the bus only
goes during the day. The road to Cajamarca is a dirt road so it
is almost impossible to travel to Cajamarca during the rainy
season. The city is the capital of the Amazonas Region. It was
founded on September 5, 1538 by the Spanish conquistador Alonso
de Alvarado". Local agriculture includes sugar cane, orchid
and coffee. Chachapoyas' transitional location between the arid
Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Central and the rainy,
rainforested Cordillera Oriental, allow it to receive generally
moderate annual precipitation without experiencing the copiously
excessive, tropical-rainforest-like precipitation amounts in
towns farther east such as Moyobamba.
Click on the pictues to have a larger
version - some panoramic available
| In the morning we walked up the
hill to have a better view of the city between the
mountains |
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| Then we got down and walked around
to have a closer look at this nice city |
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| Main square with lots of people all
day long |
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