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We recommend you visit Mancos between February and March, to coincide with the Carnival. If you are interested in ecotourism you might be interested in visiting the city during winter.
Mancos has a mild and dry climate, but becomes warm and humid during the rainy season.
Gathering point for several Manqueans. It is surrounded by the town hall and the towns church.
Beautiful lagoon surrounded by impressive snow peaks. It is the most important water reservoir of the Callejón de Huaylas. It is estimated to have 55m³, and can be easily reached by taxi or by even by bike.
The biggest fields of Puyas Raimondi are located in the Department of Ancash, 28.5 miles west of Caraz. Their spot make up a an amazing natural vista, from which you can appreciate about 90 miles of Andean wilderness. The Puya Raimondi is a special and unique plant which blooms in the highest parts of the andean mountains, can grow up to be 10 meters tall and live up to 100 years.
From Caraz you can easily reach several Snow Peaks such as the Huandoy, Santa Cruz (6.259 m), Caraz I (6.025 m), Caraz II (6.020 m) and Alpamayo (5.947 m).
It’s a delicious dish of guinea pig meat cooked crunchy and comes with potatoes and pepper sauce (spicy if you like it) and peanut.
It’s a soup of Ancash area, whose ingredients are groundes wheat, potatoes, vegetables and some aromatic herbs. Just delicious!!
It’s a roasted pig, cooked with pepper (ají), its sauce and vinegar in it.
Pumpkin peeled, cut in pieces, and boiled with cinnamon, clove and peels of orange; to obtain a better flavor you add burnt sugar. The sweet tooth will enjoy a lot this Andean dessert!!
It’s a alcoholic drink very consumed in Peru; it comes from the fermentation of sugar from the grape juice of the malt’s corn. Ask it very cold to eat with your delicious dishes.
Here are some of the most popular dropping points in Mancos. Please note that these locations generally differ with each bus operator. The bus dropping points in Mancos are as follows:
| Carnival | (Between February and March) | The andean carnivals are among the best known peruvian feasts. During the carnival a yunza is held, which is the planting of an artificial tree full with gifts, and around it the guests dance while they chop down the tree. The couple that gives the coup de grace is chosen to be the host of the next yunza |
