• Climate: Ayacucho has a temperature annual average of 17.5° (maximum of 24° and minim of 11° C). The season of rains begins in the month of November, lasting until the month of March. Sunny and dry of April to October.
• Access: Terrestrial route can be acceded directly from Lima, via the Liberators, with a duration of 9 hours approx Other routes that also exist are the Cuzco-Ayacucho route (597 km) whose duration is of 12 hours approx and the Huancayo-Ayacucho route (316 km) with a duration of 9 hours approx
• Celebrations: the Ayacuchana Easter, most touching and perhaps spectacular of Peru. Daily Procesiones, ritual carpets of flowers, stagings, are some of the forms in which the ayacuchanos express their Christian faith and devotion. The visitor will enjoy, during the five days that this celebration lasts, of traditional spirited drinks like the Chicha de Jora, the Chicha de Molle or the Chicha of Seven Seeds.
• Gastronomy: “Patachi” (soup of wheat, peas, cabbage, bacon, beans and mint), “Qapchi” (salad of Popes and fresh cheese), “sharp Puka” (chicharrón in peanut sauce), and “broth of mondongo with bare maize”.
• Crafts: Ayacucho is well-known like the Capital of the Peruvian Crafts. The altarpieces are famous, in which they represent costumbristas and religious scenes. They use ancestral techniques in textilería and natural dyes. Also the imagery, done of stone of huamanga (alabaster transparency) and his is remarkable platería of filigree.
Ayacucho, capital of the homonymous region, is located in the center-south of Peruvian the $andes. Francisco Pizarro was founded by the conqueror on 1539.
The old city of San Juan of the Border of Huamanga presents/displays attractive innumerable for the tourist and is to begin with ideal point to cross the rest of the department. To only 22 km to the north one is, for example, the Wari citadel, capital of the culture of the same name that bloomed between the centuries I SAW and XII and got to shelter 50,000 inhabitants. Also the archaeological rest Incas of Vilcashuamán and the gorgeous lagoon of Parinacochas can be appreciated in which they inhabit thousands of flamenco.
In ayacuchanas Pampas of Quinua it took place, the 9 of December of 1824, Batalla of Ayacucho, that defined American Independence.