Colcamar District Explained

Colcamar
Native Name:Qullqamar
Native Name Lang:es
Settlement Type:District
Image Alt:Plaza de Armas Colcamar
Mapsize:frameless
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Peru
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Amazonas
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Luya
Parts Type:Subdivisions
Parts Style:para
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:February 5, 1861
Seat Type:Capital
Seat:Colcamar
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Riber Juanito Tuesta Bardales
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:106.6
Elevation M:2304
Population Total:2560
Population As Of:2005 census
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:PET
Utc Offset1:-5
Blank Name Sec1:UBIGEO
Blank Info Sec1:010504

Colcamar is a district of Luya Province in Peru. Colcamar offers several attractive places for tourists like cataracts, ruins of the culture Chachapoya.

The management holidays of the capital Colcamar are celebrated on September 24. As typical meals there is known the Chochoca, the Nickname, the Locro, the Stew between others.

In Chuquichaca there is the Virgin of Chuquichaca that receives veneration of the local and regional population.

In the north the District of Colcamar has border with the District of Inguilpata, in the East with the province of Chachapoyas, in the southeast with the District The Tingo, in the south-west with the District Longuita, in the west with the District of Ocumal. The principal entry to the District of Pisiquia is the market of Yumal in the District of Colcamar, where it finishes the highway.

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