Coracora

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Coracora
Qura Qura
Town
Ciudad de Cora Cora.jpg
Nickname: 
Coracora Tierra de Tradiciónes
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Coracora
Coordinates: 15°01′01.18″S73°46′49.51″W / 15.0169944°S 73.7804194°W / -15.0169944; -73.7804194
CountryFlag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Ayacucho
Province Parinacochas
District Coracora
Government
 • MayorAlfredo Lopez Gutierrez
Elevation
3,175 m (10,417 ft)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)

Coracora or Qura Qura is a town in central Peru, and it is the capital of the Parinacochas Province in the Ayacucho Region. [1] It has a population of approximately 13,000. [2]

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Etymology

Coracora or Qura Qura comes from the Quechuan qura meaning herbaceous plant, [3] the reduplication of the syllable indicates that there is a group or a complex of something, "a complex of herbaceous plants".

Geography

Coracora is located 800 km from Lima, Peru at an altitude between 3,150 and 3,350 meters above sea level, known as the Quechua ecological region. [4] The city of Coracora is the capital of the Parinacochas Province. It forms part of the department of Ayacucho and is located in the southwestern region of Peru. The districts that form the Parinacochas Province are: Coracora, Upahuacho, Pacapauza, Rivacayco, Chumpi, Incuyo, Pullo and Anizo.

Climate

The winter season between June and September has frequent frosts, and the temperate and very rainy summer falls between December and March.

Climate data for Coracora, elevation 3,149 m (10,331 ft), (1991–2020)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)18.2
(64.8)		17.6
(63.7)		17.6
(63.7)		18.6
(65.5)		18.9
(66.0)		18.9
(66.0)		18.7
(65.7)		19.3
(66.7)		19.9
(67.8)		20.0
(68.0)		19.8
(67.6)		19.3
(66.7)		18.9
(66.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)7.0
(44.6)		7.2
(45.0)		6.9
(44.4)		5.9
(42.6)		4.4
(39.9)		4.0
(39.2)		3.7
(38.7)		4.3
(39.7)		5.0
(41.0)		5.4
(41.7)		5.5
(41.9)		6.5
(43.7)		5.5
(41.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches)111.5
(4.39)		136.6
(5.38)		94.4
(3.72)		24.3
(0.96)		1.4
(0.06)		0.4
(0.02)		2.0
(0.08)		2.0
(0.08)		3.4
(0.13)		5.0
(0.20)		6.6
(0.26)		28.7
(1.13)		416.3
(16.41)
Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru [5]

History

Founded by Spanish conquerors in the 17th century, Coracora developed on what was then the road between Lima and Cusco. Its old colonial buildings, such as the beautiful local church in the Baroque and styles were built of white ashlar.

During the 19th and 20th centuries Coracora became a flourishing Peruvian south mountain city thanks to cattle ranching.

Around the 1940s, Coracora reached an uncommon cultural and economic peak for a small city in mountainous Peru. This prosperity began to fluctuate in the 1980s due to the social violence of those years in Peru.

As of modern times, it has recovered its character as a ranching, commercial and tourist center, with significant improvements to roads, infrastructure, and services.

Festivities

From August 1 to August 8, Coracora celebrates La Virgen de Las Nieves, known as "Virgin of the Snow".

August 1: People prepare for the festivities and cook food for the entire family.

August 2: People walk to Pumahuiri (the mountain where the Virgin of the Snow was found). They sing and dance as they walk. The songs are usually prayers.

August 3: It is the "Entrada de Negritos" (Entrance of the Blacks). Children walk into town singing and dancing and people follow them as they did on their way to Pumahuiri.

August 4: "Entrada de Chamiza" (Entrance of retama). They plants are brought in on donkeys and llamas. At night, people burn the dry plant and dance around the fires to the rhythm of live music that plays all night. The same night, they have Los Castillos, or fireworks on wood, in the main plaza, Plaza de Armas. They also have serenades with people dancing and singing.

August 5: It is the main day of the festivities. The townspeople walk around the main plaza where the church is located.

August 6 to August 8: The city goes to the bullring. Each family pays for itsown place. Every square foot is worth $200.00.[ citation needed ] People buy bulls in honor of Our Lady of the Snows and the offering estimates the person (compadres). It is somewhat like a donation. If the bull does not die, the person who bought it and the person receiving it enter the bullring. People dressed in red lead a team of bulls.

Each year, a person must sign up to be in charge of the town festival on August 5.

Virgen de Las Nieves

Spaniards were bringing a statue of the Virgin from Lima to Cuzco, but along the way, they stopped at Pumawiri. [6] Pumahuiri was a long and very tiring mountain, so they stopped and rested. But one man dreamed of the Virgin of the Snow, who told him she wanted to stay in Coracora, not go to Cuzco. [7] That town was Coracora. When the man awoke, he told his fellows about his dream. They believed what he had dreamed, so they went down the mountain and took the Virgin to Coracora.

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  1. ↑ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved June 10, 2008
  2. ↑ "INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ESTADÍSTICA E INFORMÁTICA: AYACUCHO" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica de Peru. October 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-11-16. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  3. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  4. ↑ "Coracora en la region de Ayacucho - Municipio y municipalidad de Perú". www.distrito.pe. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  5. ↑ "Normales Climaticás Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  6. ↑ Garcia Rivas, Alida Jesus (2019). "Impacto del turismo en el patrimonio inmaterial religioso. Caso "Festividad de las Virgen de las Nieves de Coracora - Ayacucho - 2017"". Universidad de San Martín de Porres - USMP.
  7. ↑ Martínez Parra, Reynaldo (1999). Tradición y leyenda de la Virgen de las Nieves: (patrona de Coracora)[Tradition and Legend of the Virgin of the Snows: (patron saint of Coracora)]. Texas: University of Texas.

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