Cumbres Andinas Tours Perú

The basin of the river Colca is located in the end oriental nor of the region Arequipa, the highest point in the basin is snowy Ampato, to 6 300 m.s.n.m. The valley of Colca presents near 100 km. of long and it only occupies a sector of the basin of the river Colca, that understood between the districts of Callalli and Huambo. In this area, 16 descending towns of the ethnoses of Collahuas and Cabins exist, of those who have inherited a cultural rich tradition. The valley of Colca is part of the tectonic South American badge, for what is a very rich and active area from the geologic point of view. It houses a volcano in activity, Sabancaya, located among the solid one volcanic of Hualca Hualca and the volcano Ampato.

Access Roads

To the Valley of Colca you can arrive from the city of Arequipa, crossing 164 km. in 3 and a half hours of journey approximately.

Tourist Attractiveness

Mirador Cruz of the Condor
It is a privileged place to observe the depth of the canyon, the vegetation and mainly, the flight of the condors, the most representative bird in the region. This mirador constitutes a natural show and an interesting experience for the visitor. It is 3,287 m.s.n.m. It has been built a great cross and a small stone wall for the comfort of the tourists. The avistamiento of the condor is generally made from 10 to 12 of the noon.

Window of Colca
It is a geologic formation located 4 300 m.s.n.m. that, for eolic and pluvial erosion, it has adopted the form of a window. From this natural mirador you can appreciate the entrance highway clearly to the valley of Colca (for the high part), and the fork of the rivers Pulpera and Colca.

Canyon of Colca
One of the deepest and beautiful canyons in Peru constitutes. Their deeper part (3 400 m.s.n.m.) it is located in the town of Canco, almost to the provincial limit between Cailloma and Castile. The canyon is a geologic formation taken place by a flaw in the terrestrial bark, have more than enough where it continues acting the millennial erosion of the waters of the river of the same name. The area is surrounded by volcanos like Coropuna, Ampato and Sabancaya.

 Other Places of Interest

Fence of the Volcanos
Located to an altitude of 3 587 m.s.n.m. the Valley of the Volcanos was the center of deafening convulsions of the Volcanic Mountain range. As a result, we can observe that he/she settles on an extension of volcanic lava on which you/they have sprouted around 86 out small volcanos that are like bladders emerged by the desgasificación of the same lava or I eat product of direct eruptions from the magma; their altitude arrives until the 300 meters, and he/she has a two hundred thousand year-old approximate antiquity, presumably as consequence of an or two eruptions of the volcano Coropuna, and of other similar ones already destroyed.

Mirador of Tapay
It is a point of natural observation located in the left margin of the river Colca, to an approximate height of 3 600 m.s.n.m. From this place the depth of the Canyon of Colca is appreciated, as well as the Mountain range of Chila, and the archaeological places of Kakatapuy, Otupara and Kosñirhua. You can also distinguish the town of Tapay, and their annexes or smaller towns.