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The term Pichgacocha derives from you in runashimi: "pichga" = five and "cocha" = lagoon, this name is needed in this place there are 5 lagoons that are successively connected by the streams that are born.

Pichgacocha is a set of five super-lagoons, which correspond to the eastern mountain range of the Northern Andes, whose origin comes from the glacial streams. The flow of these inter-lagoon lagoons has been maintained due to the fluvial stations and the presence of springs as a direct consequence of the previous factor; the lagoons are located at different levels and irregularly linked by waterfalls of crystalline water.



Located in this district of Conchamarca, jurisdiction of the province of Ambo, on the banks of the Huallaga river; at a distance of 51 km. He was attended by Huánuco; with an altitude between 3,700 and 4,000 m.a.s.l.



Pichgacocha is embedded in the massive mountain range of the Huanuqueña mountain range, distributed in an artistic disorder at different latitudinal levels. They remain united to each other, by beautiful waterfalls forming a singular joy that adorns with subtle charm the natural depressions of the wild mountain where it seems to revive, from time to time, the impulse created by those strong Pleistocene that shaped the face of this part of the earth is millions of years old. This prodigy of nature is unique worldwide, on the ground it is a tourist resource, also a hydrological bell that gives rise to agriculture in the heights of Conchamarca. Keeping this place almost virgin. Drill some wells to the five ponds, due to the rugged terrain. These are reasons for more and more frequent visits, since the authorities managed to create tricks, until the opportunities 1961 - 1962. Its tourist potential has been known since the first “Ricardo Flores” Archeology and Tourism Seminar; held from November 25 to 28, 1984, from where attendees, people interested in tourism, were informed of the existence of this paradisiac place that could also be seen from the first waterfall, from the truck to Huánuco, as an invitation and Challenge to lovers of hiking and adventure tourism.

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