Sapallanga

Sapallanga is a locality in the Junín Region of Peru, the seat of the district of the same name in Huancayo Province, in the south of the Mantaro Valley. It stands at an average altitude of 3,299 metres on a plain surrounded by hills and farmland, and has a temperate, sub-humid climate with intense sun by day and cold nights, especially during the frost season from May to August. People of the Huanca ethnic group lived here before the Inca expansion. The town is known for the devotion to the Virgin of Cocharcas, whose main feast on 8 September is recognised as National Cultural Heritage, for a 30 metre statue and glass-floored viewpoint on San Cristóbal hill, and for the pre-Inca site of Ullacoto. City Population counts 11,342 people in the 2017 census.