Juanjuí

Juanjuí is a town in northern Peru and the capital of Mariscal Cáceres Province in the San Martín Region, on the left bank of the Huallaga River, with 54,006 inhabitants in the 2010 census according to the article. The Spanish captain José Gaspar López Salcedo founded it on 24 September 1827 under the name Juanjuí, a contraction of Juan Huido, Juan the escaped. Its population was formed mainly by Kichwa-Lamista immigrants from Lamas Province who migrated from the late eighteenth century, and tradition names the pioneer as an Amerindian called Juan who fled the missionaries, settled with the people of Chacho village and later brought his family and others from Lamas. On 2 July 1940 Juanjuí was declared the capital of the new province of Mariscal Cáceres. It has a warm, humid tropical climate and eight neighbourhoods around downtown, among them Chambira, Juanjuicillo, La Merced and Puerto Amberes, and it has monuments dedicated to the nearby Gran Pajatén settlement of the Chachapoya culture. Its sister cities include Chiclayo and Tingo María in Peru, Utrecht in the Netherlands and Hafnarfjörður in Iceland.