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Incrusted in the mountain septreptional; Cajabamba is located to 124 Km. to the
South of Cajamarca and 60 Km. to the North of Huamachuco, it is to 2,650 meters
on the level of the sea. Among the parallel ones 7� 7 ' 30 and 7� 35 ' 10 of
south latitude; among the meridians 77� 42 ' 35 and 78� 31 ' 20 longitude west,
and an extension 2,025.15 km2. A population of 67,381 inhabitants.
This county capital opens up step among the geographical diversity, presenting:
pampas, forests, hills, punas, gulches and lagoons that opened the way to the
formation of valleys interandinos; an interesting show of this earth that
seduces and it loves the observer's view.
They are the diverse tonalities of the greenery that you/they get the
attention; it shows affirmative of a fertile valley that for the historical
itinerary he/she has come developing you under a blue sky, watchman, clean and
clear.
The man from remote times harbored the rebelliousness viríl; continually he went
facing to an uneven and rural nature, settling down in the high parts whose
elevations today they show us the solidity, industry of a wide existence that
didn't only have his origins in the bond of consanguinity, but also that of the
common defense and that of a cult toward the legendary ancestors and divinities
protectors.
The current county capital is to the foot of the skirts of the Mythical
"Chochoconday", an old masculine sanctuary, silent witness of the
diverse social processes. This mountain or guardian huaca of the
earth fertile cajabambina, of which was existing a very perfect correlation
between the character of the old towns and that of the nature, of the one which,
the human groups extracted matters cousins for their biological sustenance.
Archaeologist Tehodore Mc Cown reaffirmed the existence of platforms or
terraces of an old town in the side of the mentioned hill.
The earth was also a very old deity from whose interior sprang and the abundance
of the liquid element still sprouts; as the well-known eyes of " Lanla ", the
same as diverse sources that irrigate the earth of the Cajabambinos.
Among their eternal rocks there is the summary of the diverse stages of the
national life, from the remote prehispanic times until the present time, the
place continues being center where beliefs and traditions are reaffirmed.
Through the time, the cultural sincretisimo is manifiestándose like personal
answer to a world united by the fé intencidad and it is that expressed Cajabamba
the current challenge of more investigations and of progress, in which its
children make an effort to be projected to the futuro.
Cajabamba of landscapes beautiful and suggestive legends, was historical center
of multiple momentous events that have gone melting which hearth; its children
have gone leaving excellent prints in the diverse areas. In their eternal rocks
there is the summary of the diverse stages of the national life.
Notes of a travel by Cajabamba, February 1997
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