Welcome to Huácar, where podra to appreciate kindness of this magical earth located in the Department of Huánuco (Peru).

Huácar is a city, with History, and attractive tourist, to be explored and for the adventure. It is a city that has own enchantment, full of joy by the life, where relax can be obtained true, because it characterizes by his tranquillity and peace.

The people of Huácar are very friendly, because she receives with the open arms; to the national tourist, asi like a the foreigner.

ESCUDO DE HUACAR
Foto: Cortesía de Marco Antonio Gutierrez Santa Cruz

Huácar, is a district of the Province of Ambo, which belongs to the Department of Huanuco.

Their coordinates are: South Latitude: 10°-09´-28´´, West longitude: 76°-14´-07´´

His you limit are:
By the North: With the Province of Huanuco and the Districts of Conchamarca, Tomayquichua and Ambo.
By the South: With the Districts of San Rafael, Mosca and Cayna.
By the West: With the Province of Huanuco and the Districts of Chaulán and Cayna. By the East: With the districts of Ambo and San Rafael.

Altitude
The urban helmet of the city is to an altitude of 2.094 M.S.N.M.

Climate
It is warmed up and dry, whose temperatures fluctuan between 17° C to 27° C, the time of rain it is between the months of November to April.

Hydrography
Huácar, counts on two rivers that atraviezan it, these they are:

The Huacarmayo river that crosses it of the West to This, that segun the belief, has powers afrodisíaco because the one that it takes and bathes in its waters, is happy in the love and it is cured of his ailments. The other river is the Orchards, that go of the South to North, are special for the canotaje, are mighty and of great route.

Routes of access.
By air: from the Airport of Huanuco the airplane from Lima to Huanuco is arrived at Huácar in 45 minutes to one hour in direct route with automobiles and the beams in 35 minutes. By land: It is made by highway which they present/display the branch of the Urban population of Ambo, the way it is affirmed and it goes parallel to the River Orchards, of the right margin, is in favor to a distance of 5 km of Ambo. Through Ambo it passes the asphalt road that covers the route Lima - Huanuco - Pucallpa.

Distances:
Of Huácar to Ambo 5 km.
Of Huácar to Huanuco 28 km.
Of Huácar to Tingo Maria 130 km.
Of Huácar to Hill of Pasco 100 km.
From Huácar to Lima (by the Orolla) 380 km.
Of Huácar to Pucallpa 370 km.
From Huácar to Port Inca 250 km.

HUACAR
Foto: Cortesía de Marco Antonio Gutierrez Santa Cruz

The reasons to visit Huácar, if we put ourselves to enumerate them podriamos to begin saying, by that are many is paraiso for the relaxation, by their good climate, by that can be practiced sports of adventure (parapente, bicycle mountain, canotaje), and by its history.

To all these reasons it is necessary to add to them some but, like the fact that her people are affectionate with the visitor, by her tipicas customs and their flavorful culinarios potajes.

CALENDAR TURISTICO.

SUPERVISORY FESTIVIDAD IN HONOR OF San Miguel OF HUACAR, is carried out days 28, 29 and 30 of September, is a celebration that symbolizes the union and cooperation between all the Hucarinos, since all participate without discrimination some, with the only object to venerate santo Patro'n; diviertiendo itself to the great thing. This is quizas the main celebration or Great Celebration to which whole I sincerely publish this invited.
FESTIVIDAD OF THE AYANCOCHA GENTLEMAN: 1 of October
The dance of the negritos: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 of December and 12, 13, 14 of January
Huacarinos Carnivals: between the 20 of January until March ends
Easter: she is variable.
Thunderous and the serenantes ones: in any day and month of the year.
Santa Maria de Guadalupe: 12 of December
Celebrations Mother countries: 27,28,29 of Julio.
Celebration of anniversary foundation of Huácar: one becomes 29 and 30 of September.

ATTRACTIVE TURISTICOS.

Some of their attractive turisticos are:

COLONIAL CHURCH San Miguel ARCANGEL OF HUACAR, is one of but old and first churches of Huánuco, date approximately from year 1600, were constructed porlos Franciscanos parents, are of Baroque style, with decoration gilded in gold bread. Their images are Spanish, this church third is constructed at the colonial time in Peru and the only one in Latin America with seven balconies in front of to its greater seat.

CASA WHERE I SPEND THE NIGHT SIMÓN BOLIVAR. The Gral Simón Bolivar, in 1822 I visit Huacar as a rest place its passage towards Hill of Pasco in the Liberating Campaign against the realists, remaining in her some days. This house is facil to recognize then at the present time has a plate recordatoria that distinguishes it of the others. In this house recibio but contingent of soldiers who thickened Peruvian Ejercito.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX OF ATASH. One is in the summit of a spur, that ramifica of the Central coordillera, which extends towards the locality of Huacar, this to 3.500 m.s.n.m.

Additionally Huácar counts Incaicas ruins and Pre-incaicas, has hills like San Cristóbal; special for it practices it of parapente, it counts on a center of health, communitarian telephone, sport service of eléctricidad, fields, schools and schools.

HUACAR
Foto: Cortesía de Marco Antonio Gutierrez Santa Cruz

EL PISHTAPACUY

It is a traditional custom and only in the region and they are made in the celebrations, in special in the one of San Miguel.

In the eves, to they are of the band Musical about the 3 of afternoon, the animals take that go away has to sacrifice, and go has to serve as foods to the population during the holidays, the people go in groups by the streets, dancing to the compass of their huaynos, make shutdowns in each two or three corners, until arriving at the border of the river, while they are there killing the hens, guinea pigs, the pigs and the cattles, others, to a flank are dancing all type of dances to are of music, others are hurling rockets to give him better tone to this festividad.

Finishing the pishtada one of the animals, once carved up the cattle, in parts; soon to be loaded by the men, and to be moored in pairs; cuyes, the hens; to be hung in long woods to take them in his shoulders by two people and the pig divided in 4 parts to be taken by men, they leave with the head of the bull and of the taken pigs each one by a man who is making jokes to the young people, these who take the heads go by ahead, behind them; those that take the meats and behind them go; it goes I publish in groups, with poles of abundant rockets, follows the band to them who in each three corners stops to dance huayno, therefore he is arrived until the greater seat, occurs a complete return there; dancing in each corner huayno, it follows all the population to them; that also they participate in these dances, thus they continue until arriving at the house of the butler; where they keep the sacrificed animals and they rest until the 10 at night to leave to the eves and soon to make the popular verbena with burns it of artificial games.

The DELIVERY Of the TRUCAY Or CHANGE And The AIHUALLA

The new butler who blesses itself publicly in the Church, enters of good will, with faith and love, then all the year works and in his work it goes to him well winning until the one hundred by one, for that reason, all want to be butlers.

To the incoming butler; the following day of the celebration and in the evening, the salient butler does delivery to him of trucay.

Trucay consists of several wrists done of flour and cooked in the mud furnace, the same go great spirals, doves, braids, of the small farm; diverse animals, all in pairs, all great ones.

These wrists go moored on one parihuela in arc done of maguey and is taken to the shoulder by two men.

Other two men take hung on a maguey; all along, tied of onion, cuyes bare, a piece of cattle meat, pieces of firewood, red pepper, onions, oil, etc.

They are hurling rockets and a man takes a torito of artificial game, that when arriving at the greater seat is burned.

All the town and both butlers, are doing hauls hauls with the groups, and to they are of the band, cross the main streets, until the house of the butler; for the incoming year.

After given trucay, the salient butler I publish yet in the groups, and to they are of the band, give completes return by the city, dancing in the corners until arriving at the entrance bridge, where one takes leave the celebration, the band, and the parroquianos, each one returns its house or to continue it in the house of the butler of the following and thus continuous year the celebration until its end.

So that one is convinced it comes and it participates. One will not regret

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