La Jalca is a district of the

Chachapoyas Province Chachapoyas is a province of the Amazonas Region, Peru. The province of Chachapoyas was a part of the department of Trujillo (according to the supreme decree of February 12, 1821) being its capital the city of Chachapoyas. After the departme ...

in the

Amazonas Region Amazonas () is a department and region in northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca on the west, La Libertad on the south, and Loreto and San Martín on the east. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas. With a lands ...

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. Its capital is La Jalca, also known as ''Jalca'', ''Jalca Grande'' or ''La Jalca Grande''. It was the first Spanish foundation of the region. The current city of Chachapoyas was established here. Founded in 1538 as ''San Juan de la Frontera de los Chachapoyas'' ("Saint John of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas") Chachapoyas was later moved to its present location. www.vivechachapoyas.com
The famous ''

juane The ''juane'' is one of the main dishes of the Peruvian cuisine, cuisine of the Peruvian Amazon, Peruvian jungle and is widely consumed on June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist (John the Baptist, San Juan), hence the name. It is known that aft ...

s'', a typical plate of the forest, prepared and invented for the festivity, also date back to this epoch. In contrast to the current ''juanes iquiteños'' they were prepared by means of

yuca ''Manihot esculenta'', commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated a ...

References

1538 establishments in the Spanish Empire Districts of the Chachapoyas Province Districts of the Amazonas Region {{AmazonasPE-geo-stub