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Peru festivals, celebrations
and festivities on June
When
Where
Description
All the month
Cusco
Cusco Jubilee Feast. Cultural,
artistic and recreative activities are carried out in homage to the
Imperial city. The medicinal hot-spring waters of Aguas Calientes are in
the outskirts of the location, near Machu Picchu, as well as the Conac
hot-spring waters (109 kms far).
1st week
Cusco
International Festival of the "Cusqueña" beer. Celebrated
with all types of music, such as rock, salsa, Peruvian ballades, etc.
1st week
Huancavelica
Holy Ghost Feast. Feast purely
of manners held in the four city districts, stand out the popular dances
and the bullfights livened up with vernacular music.
1st
Ancash
Callejón de
Huaylas. Mountain climbing week: rock climbing, para-gliding, rafting,
kayak and adventure sports competence.
2 to 3
Cusco
Feast of the Lord of "Qoyllurriti". By the Ausangate
snow-caped mountain slope (6,362 m above sea level) thousands of pilgrims
climb the mountain. The men "Q'eros" and the pilgrims carry huge ice
blocks to their lands.
9
Cusco
Corpus Christi. Is one of the most beautiful religious folk
demonstrations. It must set off the "Entrada de los Santos" (Saint's
Entrance) and the Consecrated Host procession. Folk bands and dancers
display.
16
Cusco
Raqchi Festival. Great display of regional dance groups.
Agricultural and cattle-raising Fair, typical food conquest. Tupac Amaru a
great America martyr, was imprisoned and killed in the Tinta district
(1780).
21 to 27
Loreto
Iquitos
Tourist week. FICA Song Festival. Torch and allegoric cars' parade.
Handicraft exhibition, Folk Festival. Queen's election, exotic food.
International Amazonia's Song Festival with the participation of foreign
singers.
23 to 30
San Martin
Moyobamba Tourist Week. Queen's election, allegoric cars'
parade, handicraft and tourist fair. Sight seeing tours to the Jera falls
and the El Sauce Lagoon as well as hot-spring waters in the surroundings.
Regional Folk Contest of
Autochtonic Dances. Almost fifty dancer groups participate in this event.
These groups come from provinces and distant towns. Puno is known as the "Folklorical
Capital of Peru".
24
Provinces of the Jungle
Feast of San
Juan. Celebration, dances and typical food. Groups of families organize
picnics and dance at the shores of rivers and lagoons.
29
La Libertad
Feast of San Pedro. This
holiday is celebrated in Huanchaco and San Pedro de Lloc, with picturesque
processions in the sea in the embarkations known as " Caballitos de Totora".
29
Puno
Feast of San Pedro is held right in front of the Church of
San Pedro de Zepita, which is a masterpiece of Puno colonial architecture
and the magnificent view of the Titicaca Lake and the Uros can be
enjoyed.
Last Sunday
Cusco
Ollantay Rayni - Ollantaytambo.
The entrance of the Inca fortress is the scenery of the Ollantay Inca
drama, which is staging of the love of the General Ollanta for the
Kusicoillur princess.
Last week
(Moveable)
La Libertad
Sea
Festival. In Huanchaco and Malabrigo there are surfing competences that
gather famous international sports men and women to pay homage to the
ancient Mochicas Chimu, who used to practice this sport in their
embarkations known as "Caballitos de Totora".
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