Jaén

Jaén is a city in the high jungle of northern Peru and the capital of Jaén Province in the Cajamarca Region. It was founded as San Leandro de Jaén, was later known as Jerez de la Frontera and then Nueva Jerez de la Frontera, and has been called Jaén de Bracamoros since April 1549, after the region of the Bracamoros. The city is the seat of the Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of St. Francis Xavier. Its climate is warm all year with frequent showers, which makes it one of the warmest cities in Peru, and it is known as the Land of the Brave Bracamoros, a culture documented at the Hermogenes Mejía Solf Museum. Archaeological sites such as Montegrande, with mounds and pottery of pre-Chavín cultures, lie in the valley around it.