TARAPOTO
Denominated as the city of the palms, it was founded in 1772 It owes its name to the existence in their origins of a palm called " taraputus ". Its climate is warm and the temperature oscillates between the 29º C and 37º C.
Province of Moyabamba. - located 860 meters about sea level Capital of the department of San Martin.

ORCHID PLACE
The exuberant vegetation and the climatic conditions of this area have made a perfect paradise for the conservation of the natural resources as the wild orchids; protected today for the national legislation against their pillaging.


FOLKLORE
The folklore of this department has a lot of wealth and peculiarity The songs and legends that are intoned during the festivities are plentiful.

CRAFT
The craft is beautiful and delicate in the elaboration of pottery with fine and beautiful decoration also standing out the making of hats and baskets.

GASTRONOMY
there are a great variety of dishes and typical drinks that characterize to the region.
Typical dishes. Inchicapi, juanes of rice, ninajuane, cured meat with tacacho, sausage, inchicucho, poroto shirumbe, timbuche.

TYPICAL DRINKS
Masato, seven roots, chuchuhuasi.

TOURIST CALENDAR
March is the tourist week of the city of Moyabamba.

ORCHIDS
The most beautiful flowers in the world

Exotic beauty, subtle fine, ephemeral existence. All are the adjectives that come to our mind when we have the opportunity to admire an orchid in flower. Often, we don't repair in watching beyond the forms and colors of these plants and we fall in the error of considering them alone as a touch of elegance of the nature. However, there is much more a fascinating natural history when they are observed thoroughly; they reveal us the true beauty of these jewels of the vegetable Kingdom.
The orchids constitute the biggest group of plants with flowers of the planet. They represent a line of own evolution that took place in the lapse of millions of years between twenty and thirty thousand different species.
The variety in their shapes and structures don't have parallel with any other vegetable group in the Earth.
In spite of the risk that implies to have established a relationship of narrow interdependence with their polinizers, the orchids have been diversified as few vegetable groups in the planet.
Our aim is the education for the conservation and preservation of the orchids. sharing this natural inheritance with the lovers of the nature.