TURISTIC PLACES IN PERU

MARY VISITS TARAPOTO WITH HER FRIENDS

Hi. My name is Mary. I am from Englad. I am
student yet. I am 18 years old . I visited Peru
with my friends last month, we spent our
holidays there and that was fantastic. I was in
Tarapoto city and I was facinated with this
city. As I like the adventure it was the right
place for me. I could do sport, visit turistics
places and enjoy of the typical dishes, drinks
and music. I would like to back again the next
year.
What about you? Where do you spent your
last holidays?
KNOWING TARAPOTO
WEATHER: Tarapoto has a cooler climate than the other
main cities of the Peruvian Amazon. The daily average
temperature is 25 ° C with a variation from 18 to 34 ° C

It is a city in the northern jungle of Peru,

located at an altitude of 350 meters above sea
level on the banks of the Shilcayo and
Cumbaza rivers tributaries of the Mayo river.

It is one of the main tourist and commercial

centers of the Peruvian Amazon. It has a
population of 180,073 population, although the
metropolitan conglomerate houses a little more
than 200,000 thousand population, being the
most populous city in the department of San
Martín, it is also the third largest and most
populated Amazon city after Pucallpa and
Iquitos.
 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.

The city is made up of five districts:

Tarapoto, La Banda de Shilcayo, Morales,
Cacatachi and Juan Guerra. It is also known
as the “ la ciudad de las Palmeras”.

Coffee The Amazonian city concentrates all the

Cacao
tourist and commercial activity of the San
Martín region, surrounded by the Cordillera
Escalera regional conservation area in the
north of the city, within the mountain range
of the eastern Andes and nestled in a fertile
valley at the confluence of the mayo,
cumbaza and shilcayo rivers in the southern
part of the city with crops of rice, corn,
coffee, cacao, tabacco and various
agricultural products.
Other agricultura
products
 The city is known for its countless
waterfalls in the surrounding high Amazon
rain forest, with beautiful waterfalls, the
exotic beauty of the city nestled in the
middle of the dense high mountain jungle
makes it ideal for adventure sports ,
waterfall trekking, kayaking, climbing, and high
mountain sports.

kayaking trekking Climbing

 GASTRONOMY
(MEAN DISHES)

JUANE: made with rice, eggs, olives

and chicken meat, wrapped in bijao
leaves, as well as the exquisite spicy NINAJUANE: it is
pork sausage and cured meat that has similar dish like
been industrialized and is currently Juane, but it has
exported to large supermarkets chicken meat.
throughout the country.

MASATO: drink composed of

TACACHO: is the fried and crushed
cassava, formerly this was
banana that is mixed with lard of pig,
chewed and left to ferment for
in general it is served accompanied by
an approximate time of 8 days,
spicy pork sausage or regional cured
this custom still persists in
meat which is a sausage prepared with
indigenous ethnic groups.
the thin intestines of the pork and
Currently it is prepared
filled with ground meat of this but
liquefied and adding yeast for
well seasoned.
fermentation facilitating
consumption
 POPULAR
CATARATA DE PLACES
AHUASHIYACU ÁREA DE CONSERVACIÓN REGIONAL
CORDILLERA ESCALERA

EL CASTILLO DE
LAMAS

BALNEARIOS DE SHAPAJA Y CHAZUTA

CENTRO DE (CENTRO CULTURAL WASICHAY) EN EL
RESCATE ANIMAL RIO HUALLAGA
URKU
 MUSIC

The typical indigenous folk music of Tarapoto

with percussion musical instruments, made up
of drums called “Bombos” by the local
population, in addition to wind flutes, being
these, used mainly in festivities.
 CLOTHES

Tipycal clothes
Clothes
 OTHERS TURISTIC PLACES TO VISIT IN
PERU

MACCHU PICCHU –
VALLE DEL COLCA -
CUSCO
AREQUIPA

LINEAS DE NAZCA - ISLAS BALLESTAS -

ICA PISCO