Tingo María is the capital of Leoncio Prado Province in the Huánuco Region in central Peru . It has a population of 46,191 inhabitants ( 2017 census ).
7-557: Dina Páucar (born 1969 in Tingo María , Huánuco , Peru) is a Peruvian Andean music singer and composer. Paucar was born in Tingo María, Huánuco en 1969. At the age of 10, she left her hometown to Peru's capital, Lima , where she did many lower-paid jobs: street vendor, food vendor, and housemaid. In many opportunities Paucar has said that she faced discrimination for being Andean Quechua -speaking women. After years of hard work, she
14-473: Is the Tingo María National Park of 180 km (43,000 acres (170 km )) that preserves nature and a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman that sleeps. It is called La Bella Durmiente ( Spanish for Sleeping Beauty ) or Pumarinri ( Quechua for "cougar ear"). A legend explains the form of the range. The main attraction is a cave named Cueva de las Lechuzas (Spanish for "cave of
21-483: The east it meets the Marginal Highway that follows the river to the north and arrives at Tarapoto. A main road that comes from Casma port, on the coast of Ancash department, is being worked now. This road reinforces the position of Tingo María as a regional and national hub. Tingo María is where actor Eric Fleming , star of American TV show Rawhide with Clint Eastwood , died on September 28, 1966, while shooting
28-464: The owls") (named after a colony of the superficially owl-like Oilbird found in it), probably the most attractive and accessible cave of Peru, though it is not the longest and deepest. Tingo María has an airport served daily by regional jets and turbo-prop airplanes. A well-paved main road, now called "the Federico Basadre" Highway crosses the city halfway from Lima to Pucallpa; 16 km going to
35-539: Was able to open a space within the Huayno music scene. Her musical albums became best-sellers and Paucar become one of the most successful singers and composers of contemporary Andean music. In 2004 Dina Paucar la lucha por un sueño , a TV sitcom inspired in her life and trajectory, was aired. In 2008 Paucar was named a Goodwill ambassador by UNICEF . In 2016 she was recognized as a Lima cultural ambassador by Peru's Ministry of Culture. Tingo Mar%C3%ADa Tingo María
42-529: Was considered unreachable until 1936, when the Montaña Road reached the settlement. It was then that the state run Estacion Experimental Agricola was established due to its "comfortable" elevation (2,204 ft). In 1942, the U.S. Government began adding more funding to the station, and by 1960 over 40,000 acres (160 km ) of land were under cultivation, especially along the Huallaga River valley where land
49-761: Was level. Coffee was a particularly valuable crop. The city nickname is "the Door of the Amazonia." The city is placed where two important rivers meet; the Monzón and the Huallaga river, a main contributor of the Marañón river. The city headquarters the National University of the Forest (UNAS-www.unas.edu.pe); it has 7 faculties, a botanical park, and first level facilities. Near the city there
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