San Ramon: enjoy the beautiful attractions of The Golden Gate of the Central Jungle

The city of San Ramón is known as “The Golden Gate of the Central Jungle” and boasts as tourist attractions a series of beautiful natural settings with great biodiversity, exquisite cuisine, as well as a hospitable population that invites you to return more than once.

Holy Week in San Ramón

Holy Week is a commemorative tradition of the Christian religion, about the life, passion and death of Jesus Christ, a commemorative tradition that is celebrated throughout Peru and, with special devotion in the Junín region.

San Ramón, a district of the province of Chanchamayo –Junín Region-, is an excellent alternative to visit during Holy Week.

The festivities in honor of its patron saint, whose central date is today, but which extend this long weekend, constitute an opportunity to travel to San Ramón, one of the six districts of the province of Chanchamayo, in the Junín region.

In addition to the religious commemorative events for Holy Week, the San Ramón district offers us its magnificent natural and cultural tourist attractions: spectacular waterfalls; “La Auvergne” beach; “El Paso de Los Valientes” (a section of the old penetration road towards the Central Jungle); the CC.NN. Shipiba Shawan Rama; the “Las Delicias” nursery (in Campamento Chino); among other tourist attractions, including its wonderful landscape covered with vegetation and its warm climate, ideal for practicing adventure and sports tourism.

Among the activities scheduled for Easter, the fashion parade with native motifs, the Ethnic Catwalk, stands out, to be held on the 31st of these starting at 8:00 p.m. in the Plaza Mayor of San Ramón.

How to get to San Ramón?

Just 6 hours east of Lima, on a paved road trip, the district of San Ramón is located in the Selva Alta eco-region, with an altitude of 820 meters above sea level.

Climate

Thanks to this location, it has a tropical climate (warm, humid and rainy) and a temperature that ranges between 14°C and 31°C. The rainy season occurs between the months of December and March.

Tourist attractions

Among the tourist attractions offered by the San Ramón district are the following:

Agua Flor-Sugar Loaf Bridge Route

This route is formed from the entrance to the district of San Ramón, where all types of flora are observed, in which orchids stand out, as well as diverse fauna that has the "Cock of the Rocks" as one of its greatest exponents, falls of water and also vestiges of the first colonizers who entered the district.

Beautiful Pampa

Protected natural area, located 24 kilometers from the city of San Ramón. This forest shelters a giant cedar called “the grandfather”, considered an ancestral tree.

The road to Pampa Hermosa begins at the Victoria Bridge (where the Peruvian film “La Fuga del Jackal” was filmed in 1987), and along the route you will find natural viewpoints, abundant waterfalls surrounded by flora and fauna typical of the jungle. Local authorities manage that Pampa Hermosa becomes a National Sanctuary, in order to preserve its biodiversity.

Tirol Waterfall

It is a 35 meter high waterfall with a leafy fall that forms a rainbow with the sun's rays around noon. To get there you must walk a path of approximately 3 kilometers. Infrastructure has been installed in the area with craft stalls, changing rooms and toilets. Opening hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Gastronomy

Likewise, the district of San Ramón (as part of the Central Selva) is no stranger to a delicious gastronomic proposal, now an identity of Peru, which delights its cheerful and friendly inhabitants and visitors who arrive eager to taste the more varied typical stews and the sensational soft drinks and juices made from the exotic fruits that this paradisiacal place produces.

Among the typical dishes of the San Ramón district and the province of Chanchamayo are: Asado de Zamaño, made with roasted zamaño or wild pig meat, accompanied by parboiled yuccas, fried plantains and rice.

You can also taste the fried maiden, a fish from the jungle rivers that is characterized by having abundant meat and few bones, which is accompanied by roasted or fried yuccas and salad.

Other emblematic stews are tacacho (fried and mashed banana) with cecina (pork preserved in salt and then fried); Chicharrón made of sajino meat (a large, wild, vegetarian rodent whose meat is widely consumed in the Peruvian jungle) served with rice, cooked or fried yuccas and salad, and deer steak (a wild animal that is hunted and with whose meat it is prepared in various ways).

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