Cajamarca Province meet 227 years of English foundation
Rica and gold story has Hualgayoc Cajamarca province, with its capital Bambamarca. Its ancient deposits of gold that gave so much prosperity in the viceroyalty and much of the republican era legend surrounding it and gave it strategic importance. Documented evidence
realize that pre-Hispanic times this territory was known as "Cori-brand," native voice which means "gold country or region"
The beautiful and hospitable city of Bambamarca was founded on October 28, 1793, makes 227 years under the auspices of Bishop Jaime Martinez, during the reign of Viceroy Teodoro de Croix.
The Hualgayoc old mining town, with its adobe walls and thatched roofs "hualque", caught fire when it had declined the feverish gold. Then there were other prosperous times. Bambamarca flourished as an orderly and beautiful provincial city between the rivers Llaucano (also called Pumagón) and Maygasbamba.
The mining boom was followed by the development of livestock and agriculture. Province ubérrimos fertile land and valleys, Hualgayoc has always been a haven for self-sufficient productive capacity and develop trade with other regions of the northeast and our coastal cities.
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| Opening Ceremony of the mausoleum of the master Catalino Terrones Terán |
The wealth of this land blessed by nature has always been enhanced by the hardworking men and women creative and who have lived and currently live there and have also migrated to other regions with its own merit highlighting how much activity they have undertaken.
And in the course of history Bambamarca education and culture have always been cultivated as a precious treasure of a progressive people, indomitable, able to overcome adverse circumstances and social injustices.
For bambamarquinos and their descendants is by reason of immense pride that the tribute you have taxed the Municipality of Bambamarca and education authorities in the province last October 24 Catalino Grandmaster Terán Terrones, educator and generation paradigm, opening his tomb in a mausoleum that enhances and peremniza memory.
In the decade of the 50's people Bambamarca already paid tribute to the master Catalino with a bust to his memory erected in the plaza of the city, opposite the iconic National College of San Carlos.
Each July 6, Teacher's Day, branch schools across the province will renew their homage and crowning recognition with flowers and palms to the monument. That statue has now been moved to another urban area. Don Catalino Terán
Terrones, belonged to an illustrious bambamarquinos elite, whose traces are still fog and wakes illuminating new horizons for current and future generations.
His teaching ministry was so deep that even devoted part of his modest salary to buy school supplies to poor children who had little access to education.
The wise teacher and 18 children had died, but his descendants are so numerous that their grandchildren, great grandchildren and great grandchildren are scattered around the world proudly wearing always the memory of this illustrious and noble patriarch, like that of his wife Josefa Chávez Tello.
Our profound gratitude and appreciation to the current authorities bambamarquinas to honor the memory of the great master. The example and legacy of the ancestors is a substantial part of our collective consciousness. A people with history and culture will always have an accurate view of their goals and destinations.
