Sports and Recreation
Soccer is one of the most practiced sports in the city. However its practice has generated more expectives since the Club Sport Ancash was the only soccer team in participate at Peruvian Soccer League. inside the city there many soccer courts located in the differents neighbourhoods in order to practice this kind of sport. Other sports that are practiced like the basketball and the volleyball, especially in the female people. Moreover tennis has so much acceptance in the city.
On the other hand adventure sports are so practiced in the city especially in young people, because of the touristic boom, has been lived the city since several decades. Adventure sports are so popular between between local people and tourists from all over the world, that visit every year the city. Sports which are popular like paraglidyng, Hang glidyng, trekking,llama trek, climbing, rafting, canoeing, mountain bike, motocross, abseiling, puenting, that is practiced from the highest bridges crossing the Santa river. Also is popular mountaineering and other winter sports as snowboard and skiing, especially in snow peaks as Pastoruri and other snow peaks of easy climbing, that surround the city and ara located at Huascaran National Park. Also people prefer to have large walkings to the different mountains as Rataquenua and Pukaventana.
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