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-There is no better time to travel to Chincha than the summer, since the weather is much nicer than in other seasons (although in general is temperate). The festival of “Verano Negro” is another reason why it’s an ideal period for tourists to travel to Chincha.
The weather is tropical in Chincha. During the summer the rains decrease considerably. The average temperature is 81,5 °F (27,5°C).
Location: Av. Víctor Andrés Belaunde 301
Hours: doesn’t say
Price: doesn’t say
A different proposal of entertainment in Chincha Alta, inspired by rock. If you come to this place don’t forget to ask a pisco sunrise to start a joyful evening.
Location: Av. La Mar 200, Urb, Lomo Largo - Sunampe
Hours: 10:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m.
Price: doesn’t say
Themed parties, a variety of drinks, good atmosphere and the most recent music wait for you in Scorpia, one of the most crowded places by locals and visitors. Fun is guaranteed until the sunrise.
Location: Pasaje La Paz 142, Villa Julia - Sunampe
Hours: doesn’t say
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It’s the best disco to end the week with fun, music and good drinks. In Arcadia you will find a good atmosphere surrounded by friends, or meeting people with festive spirit.
Location: Panamericana Sur 791, km. 197.5, close to the Super Grifo Chincha
Hours: 6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m./ Sundays 6:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Price: doesn’t say
Typical and gourmet cooking in the heart of Chincha, prepared with the best ingredients and talented chefs. It’s worth it to go to El Batan to get the best out of the typical Chincha food, or to taste the variety of plates, depending on the hour. To ask for a carapulcra or sopa seca will be inevitable.
Location: C.P. El Guayabo LT. 46, distrito de El Carmen
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Far away from the most central places, at El Carmen district, it’s a good option for the ones who look for the most traditional and typical experience of the Chinchan gastronomy. We recommend it if you go for a weekend, so you can enjoy also the life shows; if you are lucky, Mamaine will personally look after you.
Location: Carretera Panamericana Sur km. 196Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Price: s/ 17 - s/ 34:
The dishes you will find at this restaurant are from typical to regional. You can taste a forceful carapulcra or a creole dish served in a plentiful way.
Location: between the Calle Lima and Av. Oscar R. Benavides (downtown city)
Hours: all day
Price: free entrance
The Plaza de Armas of Chincha maintains a colonial type structure, surrounded by palm trees, with a traffic circle that is the main meeting point and benches for the rest of the local and visitor public. Facing the Plaza de Armas you have the Santo Domingo church.
Location: facing the Plaza de Armas, at the Grau street
Hours: doesn’t say
Price: doesn’t say
It’s one of the most visited churches sinceit’s the first stop on the tourist route through the city and surroundings. Its construction was finished in 1870, being rebuilt and modernized by the religious order San Vicente de Paul. Inside you will be fascinated by the main altar, worked with stylized art and detail, where you can see the images of Santa Rosa, San Francisco de Asis, the Virgen del Carmen and Santo Domingo de Guzman, whose name the church took.
Location: at 9.3 mi (15 km) from the city, district of El Carmen
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Price: s/ 5
At 20 min by car from Chincha is located this typical mansion of the colonial period, built ending the 17th century. The main attractions are the beautiful hallways, the large patios -where there are objects used for the works typical of the period- the chapel of baroque style and the underground gallery, originally created to transport slaves in the colonial times.
Location: at 6.2 mi (10 km) to the south of the city
Hours: all day
Price: free entrance
At this district the essence of the afroperuvian culture is concentrated. It’s common to see on the evenings and weekends a lot of activity on the streets, since the inhabitants are joyful and festive, and show it in each of the spontaneous and prodigious dances. At this place it’s also celebrated the most important festivals of Chincha, as the Festival del Verano Negro and the festival of Virgen del Carmen.
Location: at 19 mi (31 km) from the city, at the bank of the San Juan river
Hours: 6:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Price: free entrance
In this complex nearly 1000 figures on the stones of Huancor are represented in 30 centuries of history of the ancient settlers of Chincha. The stones show how was the life of the first people from Chincha, considered experts sailors and distinguished businessmen of the old Peru.
Location: at 5 mi (8 km) from the Panamericana Sur, at 8 min by car from the city
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Price: s/ 5 (adults) - s/ 2 (children)
It was the original capital of the territory of the chincha culture (1200 AD - 1450 AD) made up of pyramids from where you can observe the chinchan sea and the nearby country houses. Its original structure was modified by the inca people, who added elements of their architecture after the conquest to the chincha population.
Location: at 6.2 mi (10 km) from the city, at the town of Grocio Prado
Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Price: free entrance
In this place lived Melchora Saravia Tasayco, popularly known as “la Melchorita”, who dedicated her life to the Catholic faith and to take care of poor and sick people. Afterher death in 1951, her house was transformed in a center of worship, that is the origin of the sanctuary that takes her name.
You won’t avoid doing this route of pisco and wine, across the traditional wineries and vineyards of Chincha, where you will find pisco and wine of the best quality, in the purest state. You will have the possibility of tasting the most exquisite drinks made of varied types of grape and at the same time you see how they are produced. Visit the wineries Grimaldi, Castellano, El Paraíso, Arenas, San Cristóbal, Villa Julia, Naldo Navarro and Chumbiauca. There are a lot of options to choose!
In sunny and warm days you can go to the crowded beaches of excellent view, in the middle of the desert environment, so characteristic of the southern coast. The most popular is Jahuai, but there are various choices also good for the summer visitors as La Perla, Totoritas or Carrizal.
The islands of Chincha are 3 islands, famous in the 19th century for being the main source to obtain guano, that was used until 1874, when it ended. From the district of Tambo de Mora at some kilometers from the city of Chincha you can start a tour to the islands, home of the guano birds, ideal to all the lovers of nature observation or birdwatching.
The place known as “las laderas” is one of the favourite points by the adrenalin and adventure sports. From the laderas which are at 60 to 200 meters of height you can start the flight on paragliding, from the Chincha valley to the Cañete valley, which roundtrip take about 4 hours. There is no comparable experience, just unforgettable.
If you are looking for the most typical dish of Chincha, you found it. The Chinchan carapulcra is prepared in a mud pot -using a stick laddle- on an adobe kitchen, where they cook with firewood; that is the secret of the smoked particular but delicious flavor. It’s prepared with potatoes, meat (pork, mutton or hen), chilly pepper, onions, pepper, salt, garlic and toast peanuts.
It’s a soup that get up every exhausted man. It’s a plate full of proteins and a concentrate flavor with the achiote (spice), black olives, parsley, salt, noodles, meat, pepper and hen consomme. Don’t you leave Chincha without tasting it, you could regret later.
This popular dessert is obtained of boiling the quince with blonde sugar, whisking the mix with a stick laddle. The result is a dessert between solid and jellied of dark red color, a simple delicacy!
Made of white corn, pork, chilly pepper, peanuts, black olives and boiled egg, they prepare a dough that recovers all the ingredients on a square shape. Once the mixture is ready the tamal is wrapped in a banana leaf, to be tied with little ropes. At the end it’s put into water for an hour until it’s cooked.
| Verano Negro | (February the 25th until March the 6th) | It’s one of the most important festivals in Peru, celebrated at the beginning of the year in the district of El Carmen, crib of the afroperuvian culture. During the festival there are shows of dances and traditional music, gastronomy, winemaking and handicraft fairs, that are completed with an open-air dance where locals and visitors participate with tap-dances and rejoycing. |
| Virgen del Carmen | (December the 27th) | It’s one of the festivals where the fervour and Chinchan faith are mixed up with the cultural afroperuvian traditions to pay homage to the patron saint, the Virgen del Carmen. The peak moment of your visit will be the Baile de las pastoras (the shepherdess dance), with the violin and percussion melodies. |
| Festival de la vendimia | (March from the 15th to the 24th) | The best of the wines and piscos produced in the region you will find at this theme festival, where you will learn about how the iconic drinks of the peruvian south are made, with the grape footstep and the pisco distillation. You will also find the typical plates, recreational games, competitions, presentation of peruvian artists, life music and the expected coronation of the Señorita Vendimia, where participate the most beautiful young ladies of Chincha. |