Amazonas · Peru Capital
In the destination Chachapoyas and Kuélap.
In the photo: Chachapoyas
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The city
Chachapoyas, capital of the Amazonas department, lies at about 2,300 metres on the eastern slope of the Andes. Founded in 1538, it has a historic centre of white houses with wooden balconies around the Plaza de Armas. It is the base for the citadel of Kuélap, the Gocta waterfall, the Karajía sarcophagi, the Revash mausoleums and the Museo Leymebamba, legacies of the chachapoya culture.
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The local experience
The square plaza in the center of Chachapoyas, with the Cathedral and white mansions with wooden balconies and tiled roofs around it, the center of a historic district declared a cultural heritage of Peru.
The stone citadel of the Chachapoya culture atop Cerro Barreta, at about 3,000 meters, with walls up to 19 meters high, nearly 600 meters long and hundreds of circular houses, accessed via the Utcubamba valley.
A 771-meter waterfall in two drops, in a forested valley of the province of Bongará, reached by trail from the villages of Cocachimba or San Pablo, about an hour from Chachapoyas.
A group of clay human-shaped sarcophagi up to 2.5 meters high, placed by the Chachapoya culture in a niche of a rock face, with sculpted heads and human skulls on top.
Mausoleums of the Chachapoya culture built on a reddish rock face at about 2,800 meters, shaped like small painted stone-and-mud houses, like a tiny village hanging on the cliff.
The museum in the village of Leymebamba, south of Chachapoyas, which houses the mummies and Chachapoya objects found in the mausoleums of the Laguna de los Cóndores, as well as textiles, ceramics and quipus.
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