Tingo Maria April 17, 2010

Gateway to the Amazon region of Peru and one of the youngest cities in the jungle. Tingo Maria is known as the city of Sleeping Beauty, framed in a beautiful mountain forest setting dominated by the imposing mountain range of the same name and along the Huallaga River. Its magnificent scenery everywhere invite to adventure tourism and nature.
From the Mirador San Cristobal is possible to see the city and see with total clarity the silhouette of Sleeping Beauty that is drawn in the mountains that surround it.
You can not let the opportunity to visit the National Park Tingo Maria, where you can observe a great diversity of orchids and wildlife.
Surely will be more of a surprise in this wonderful city!

Plaza de Armas

Modern architectural style of the twentieth century, forming an arc expresses the gateway to the Peruvian Amazon, palm trees and surrounded by breathtaking aguíjales.
Iglesia Santa Teresita del Nino Jesus
It was founded in October 1944. Considered the oldest church in Tingo Maria. The church building was made possible by the efforts of the Franciscan priests Canadians. It currently has an adjoining convent and a school.

Cerro San Cristobal

Ideal place to contemplate in all its splendor and beauty of the figure of the sleeping beauty and appreciate the beautiful landscapes of the Amazon rainforest.

Tingo Maria National Park

Located in the province of Leoncio Prado, consists of tropical forests with caves and caverns. It was created to protect the Sleeping Beauty mountain and cave of the Owls with adjacent forests.
The flora is very diverse, offers visitors more than 100 species of orchids and variety of medicinal plants such as cat's claw and sangre de grado. There are also fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals such as jaguar, ocelot, the wildcat and the mountain tapir. Highlighted among the birds, the cock of the rocks, guacharos and the howler monkey, the latter unfortunately endangered. There are also species of butterflies and amphibians.
Within the park you can visit the falls of the Quinceañera, Gloriapata and in the buffer zone of Jacintillo sulphurous waters.

Owl Cave

This is the main opening of a complex underground system of caverns inside the mountain. It is approximately 30 m. height of 80 m. still wide and its depth is not known exactly. The cave houses an important colony of birds known as guacharos or Santana (like owls) as well as parrots, swallows and bats.

Cave Pavas

At the end of a deep, narrow ravine where a stream of fresh waters and beaches and pools is surrounded by vegetation. In one of the pools can be seen a natural formation resembling the figure of a woman who is called locally the Goddess of Water.

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