Tourist Attractions
One of Ayavaca's most important attractions is the Aypate Inca construction, at 49 kilometers (30 mi) east of the province's capital, located on, or in front of an ancient pre Inca sanctuary. In 1996, the regional office of the National Institute of Culture gave to Aypate the recognition of "Archaeological Capital of Piura". The name of Aypate (Also Aypache or Allpachí), also identifies an important legendary figure considered a founding father in the history of this region. The legend describes the beginning of a golden age after a human triumph in understanding and conquering nature without harming it.
Other interesting testimonies of the old local culture exist in different places of the province, under the form of petroglyphs (El Toldo, Samanga), megalithic altars (Chocán, Montero), and remainders of the old Qhapaq Ñan or Inca road.
Ayavaca has also a multiplicity of landscapes that encompass zones of dry forest and areas of almost permanent humidity located in the mountain range, a region of páramos, lakes and humid forests that conform the main freshwater sources of all the Piura region. Some of these lakes are the Laguna Prieta, near Huamba and Samanga, the Lagunas Arrebiatadas, an assembly of lakes connected in descending levels, the Laguna del Cristal, El Cántaro and the lake of Santa Clara or Siete Poderes.
Likewise, in the large mountain area shared by the provinces of Ayavaca and Huancabamba, there is a great assembly of well known lakes locally known as The Huarinjas or Huaringas, one of them is the very important Laguna del Rey, (Lake of the King or Lake of the Inca King), the highest one of the sierra of Piura, in the Ayavaca district of Pacaipampa.
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