Province of Huanuco

Capital: City of Huanuco
Altitude: 1.896 m.a.s.l.
Distance: not available

The province of Huanuco is located in the central-eastern zone of Peru. On the left river-bank of the Huallaga river. It lays between the sierra and the high jungle.

Huanuco is a typical city of Andean ravine, decorated by beautiful mountains. At only 4 kilometers away from the city, there are small vestiges of Inca temples, considered the oldest of America. The most important one is the "Templo de las Manos Cruzadas" (temple of the crossed hands).

During the time of the colony, the city was an entrance point to the jungle for the Franciscans.


It is interesting to visit:

- Square of Arms
- The Cathedral
- The Museum of Natural Science
- The Churches: San Francisco, Cristo Rey, San Sebastian, La Merced and San Cristobal
- Botanical Garden


Tourist Site Attractions:

City of Maria, located at 120 kilometers from Huanuco, capital of the county Leoncio Prado. It is surrounded by the mountain range Bella Durmiente ( profile of a young and beautiful women laying on her back).

The Cave of the Owls, located at 6 kilometers from Tingo Maria. It is a giant grotto of limestone that shelters an important colonie of owl (birds).

Town of Tomay Kichwa, located at 18 kilometers from Huanuco. A population that conserves old houses with wide patios and picturesque landscapes. There is the sunlit house of Micaela Villegas, "La Perricholi", famous lover of the Virrey Amat.

El boquerón del padre Abad, at 96 kilometers from Tingo Maria. It is a narrow canyon covered by vegetation and beautiful falls.

Archeological site Kotosh-Cotos, also called "Templo de las Manos" Cruzadas, (first sculpture of America). It is located at 5 kilometers from Huanuco. It is assumed that the buildings date back from the pre-ceramic or archaic final. (11000 - 6600 b.C.).

Archeological site of Huanuco-Pampa o Pampa de Huanuco, located at 134 kilometers from Huanuco, in the county of Dos de Mayo. It was an administrative center of the Inca, where one can see the planification of an Inca city with its houses, streets and buildings. At the east-side of this citadell it can see the most refined building known as Inca Huasi, that was seemingly the residence of the Inca; and nearby is the Inca bath with a long terrace as platt-form with embedded niches.

Archeological remains of Tantamayo, located at 158 kilometers from Huanuco, county of Huamalies. It is an archeological site known as "Rascacielo de America", due to being at an altitude of 3.500 m.a.s.l, and its buildings have up to five floors.

Mountain range of Huayhuash, located on the limit between the provinces of Huanuco and Ancash. With different alps type or himalaya (like snowy mountains). The most important and difficult peaks are Yerupaja, Siula (6.536 m.a.s.l.), Sarapo (6.143 m.a.s.l.) and Randoy (5.883 m.a.s.l.).