Cutervo

Cutervo is a town in northern Peru and the capital of both Cutervo District and Cutervo Province in the Cajamarca Region, with 51,272 inhabitants in 2020 according to the article. It lies in the central mountain range of the northern Peruvian Andes, about 100 kilometres north of the departmental capital Cajamarca, on the left bank of the Cutervo River, which flows into the Sócota River and through the Llaucán River into the Marañón. The region has been populated since ancient times, judging by pictographs, ceramics and metal tools; before the Inca it belonged to the Wari culture, and around 1460 the Inca Tupac Yupanqui subdued the Guambos, whose kingdom became a province of Chinchaysuyo. In 1540 the lands of the Guambos province, to which Cutervo belonged, were distributed by encomienda, those of Cutervo falling to Lorenzo de Ulloa. By decree of Simón Bolívar of 28 January 1825 Cutervo became a district of Chota Province, then part of La Libertad, until the Department of Cajamarca was created in 1855. The yearly average high temperature is 17.7 degrees Celsius and temperatures stay stable through the year.