PUCALLPA

Pucallpa (Quechua hallpa puka 'red earth', in reference to clay-) is a Peruvian city located along the Ucayali River, is the largest city and capital of the department of Ucayali.

It is the second largest city in the Peruvian Amazon Iquitos behind. Wood is an important center of the country and has lots of lumber. She also has a small oil refinery and a gas Curimana district.

It is a river port, the second largest in the Peruvian Amazon, and most communications are carried across the river Ucayali.

Location

The city of Pucallpa is located in the Ucayali department in eastern Peru central banks of the Ucayali River. Is in the Amazon jungle to 154 m.s.n.m.

Warm tropical climate all year round average temperature is 26 º C, with peaks that can reach 34 ° C in the hottest days. Between October and December, precipitation and temperature produce low hasya 21.5 º C on average. The flow of lluvas can reach up to 1570 mm.

History

The city of Pucallpa has no fixed date because the foundation is not the result of an act of settlement, but a gradual process of cantonment population and settlers. Oral sources indicate that it is from the 1850's began to arrive early settlers to this town where there was already a small native settlement.

The first trips that are recorded are those of Catholic priests. Thus, "Lima Historical Magazine of the Year 1909, mentions the log of the expedition that made the Rev. Fernando Valladares' the Upper and Lower Ucayali in 1854. In this blog says, "I came to Pucallpa on 22 and found eight families and three nursery Shipibos" referring to the settlers and natives who resided in that locality.

This would become the first documentary reference to the existence of the city of Pucallpa (which at that time did not reach the village category.) In the following years, other priests left a written record of his travels in the Peruvian Amazon and its passage through the city of Pucallpa. So, Father Vicente Calvo, arrived in 1857 to Pucallpa on his journey looking for a communication between Huanuco and Ucayali.

The Italian investigator Antonio Raimondi visited the town in 1860. And in 1862, the "Census of the coastal province of Loreto", published by the library and Correa Larraburre refers, among cities, villages, towns and villages in the Amazonian town of Pucallpa Peru with little more than fifty people .

However, the official story promoted by local authorities said that Pucallpa was founded around the year 1883 at the height of euphoria over the rubber trade. As it is unable to agree on the identity of the founder since there are three people who are considered as such: the Peruvian Eagle Eduardo Tello (born in San Martin) and the Brazilian Augusto and Antonio Videira Cauper Maya de Britto.

By Law N º 9815 of July 2, 1943 created the province of Coronel Portillo as part of the department of Loreto and established as its capital the city of Pucallpa. Subsequently, by Act No. 23,416 of June 1, 1982 created the Department of Ucayali Pucallpa was thus elevated to the departmental capital, a situation that continues to this day becoming the largest city in the department and the second the Peruvian Amazon.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Yarinacocha Lagoon

A 7 km from the city is Yarinacocha lagoon, which is a bend in the Ucayali River and offers a place of recreation. The lake is valued for the opportunity to practice it several water sports (skiing, swimming, rowing and fishing). It has two shelters and is surrounded by vegetation and some native settlements. There is also a botanical garden (Chullachaqui) that allows us to appreciate the varieties of local flora.

The name derives from Yarinacocha Yarina, which is the common name of the palm Phytelephas macrocarpa, at other times very abundant in the area.

Recreation is a resort where the tourists are visiting this Yarinacocha Lagoon. and where the inhabitants of Pucallpa sua going to swim in cool waters in the traditional Fiesta of San Juan