Coracora
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Coracora Qura Qura |
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| Nickname(s): Coracora Tierra de Tradiciónes | |
 Coracora
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| Coordinates: 15°01′01.18″S 73°46′49.51″W / 15.0169944°S 73.7804194°W | |
| Country |
 Peru
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| Region | Ayacucho |
| Province | Parinacochas |
| District | Coracora |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Alfredo Lopez Gutierrez |
| Elevation | 3,175 m (10,417 ft) |
| Time zone | PET (UTC-5) |
Coracora (in hispanicized spelling) or Qura Qura (Quechua qura herbaceous plant, the reduplication indicates that there is a group or a complex of something, "a complex of herbaceous plants") is a town in central Peru, and it is the capital of the Parinacochas Province in the Ayacucho Region.
It is located 800 km from the city of Lima, at an altitude between 3,150 and 3,350 meters above sea level, known as the Quechua ecological region.
Dry and sometimes cold, in the day it resembles a mild summer day, but in the night it resembles a freezing cold winter. The days are usually something mild between +12 and +18 °C and at nights between -5 and 5 °C. The winter season is manifested between June and September with frequent frosts, and the temperate and very rainy summer between December and March.
Founded by the Spanish conquerors toward the 17th century, probably on an Amerindian Andean settlement, soon a population of important European origin, will developed in what was the road between Lima and Cuzco. It proves of they are it old such colonial constructions as the beautiful local church of Baroque and Renaissance style, built in white ashlars.
Nevertheless, it was in the 19th century and it leaves of the 20th one that Coracora became one of the flourishing cities of the Peruvian south mountain, thanks to the export cattle raising that could gather an important number of local managers and European immigrants.
Toward the decade of 1940, Coracora reached a not very common cultural and economic peak for a small city mountain Peruvian, this prosperity began to vary in the decade of 1980 in direct relationship with the social violence of those years in the whole country.
At the moment it has recovered their character of center cattleman, commercial and tourist with important improvements in access roads, infrastructure and services.
In the beginning of August, Coracora celebrates the devotion of La Virgen de Las Nieves, or known as "Virgen of the Snow". The days that they celebrate are August 1–12.
August 1: People make preparations for the festivities. They make food for the whole family.
August 2: People walk to Pumahuiri (the mountain that the Virgen of the Snow was found). Los Negritos (kids that dance and sing for the Virgen of the Snow) People sing and dance as they walk to Pumahuiri, and the songs are also prayers.
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