HUANCAYO
Geograficamente and economicamente, the department of Junin, this located in the heart of the great central region of pais, is an integrating axis par excellence, because important colonizadoras - towards Tingo Maria and Pucallpa, and to Chanchamayo and Oxapampa - leave from their great metalurgico mining center in the city of the Basket, center that as well this connected with Lima and the port of the Callao by the main highway and the Central Railroad.
The enormous importance of the metalurgico mining complex of the Basket; considered but falsified of world and one of but the great ones of Sudamerica, it has caused that much people think outside about this department as if fundamentally of mountain range when, on the contrary, most of its territory is in the rich region of the high forest of the Amazonia.
In this amazonica region of the department, of average altitudes - between the 600 and the 2.000 msnm -, numerous earth valleys are located fertiles, mayoria of which does not count on vias of access necessary.
The department of Junin counts on 09 provinces, being they Chanchamayo, whose capital it is the Favor, Chupaca and its Chupaca capital, Conception; its capital Conception, Huancayo; its capital Huancayo, Jauja; its capital Jauja, Junin; its capital Junin, Satipo; its capital Satipo, Tarma; its Tarma capital and by I complete Yauli; its capital the Basket.
This department this plenty of attractive turisticos, being but the important ones, the lake of Junin; or Chinchaycocha, the sanctuary of Chacramarca; where I am celebrated the battle of Junin that seal American Independence, the dominical fair of Huancayo, Chupaca; land of the Shapis, diffusers of the musical current denomida CHICHA, the city of Jauja; that Francisco Pizarro planning like capital of the Virreynato of Peru, the Cathedral of Jauja; first church that the Pizarro conqueror control to construct in the Peru, the lagoon of Paca, the Convent of Ocopa, the Center Piscicola de Ingenio, Chanchamayo; land of the Ashaninkas, Tarma, important by the culture of ornamentales flowers and much but, that serious length to enumerate.
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