THE CITY OF TARMA, THE PEARL OF THE ANDES.

The city, named by Antonio Raymondi as "The Pearl Of the Andes," is situated  in the Center of Peru, at an elevation of 3080 meters above sea level in Tarma Province; 266 kms East of the city of Lima, in the Mountain Ranges of the Andes, in the Junin Region of Peru within a fertile Valley.
The region is one of Peru's most beautiful Andean Regions, with green rather than snow-caped mountains stretching down from high, craggy limestone outcrops into steep canyons forged by Amazon tributaries powering their way down to the Ocean. It is the 2nd biggest city in Junin.
By far it is the nicest Mountain Town in Peru that sits on the edge of the Andes almost with spitting distance of the Amazon Forest and where many important civilizations lived in the past, from pre-Inca to the Inca Culture.
The pre-Inca large ethnic groups were: the Chinchaycocha, the Xauxa and the Wanka. The Chincahycocha settled to the Northwest of the region, mainly what is today La Oroya and the Northern part of the Valley. The Xauxa settled to the Southern part, south of the Tarma River. The Wancas and another small group called Palcamayo settled to the East section. When the Inca time arrived, they built up a new Province in Tarma. They moved the locals to other sections of the Empire and built a strategic  religious and political Province, which allowed them to exercise better control of the Region. The capital of the Inca Province was Tarma Tambo. The Spaniards moved the capital or Head of the Province from Tarma Tambo, located at the slope of a Mountain, to the bottom of the Valley, called Pampas (1538). Originally the zone was a town of natural people called "Pueblo de Indios."
Tarma is one of the region's most welcoming cities with a balmy climate by altiplano standards, surrounded on all sides by Mountains and steep, deep Valleys, and poised on the eyebrow of the jungle with a road linking the Central Andes to the Amazon Basin. It has a lot to offer, ruins, caves, waterfalls, and just a short distance to the Jungle.
Tarma makes a good living from its traditional textile and leather industries, and from growing flowers for export as well as for their own use.
The Town's greatest claim to fame is its connection with Juan Santos Atahualpa's rebellion in the 1740s and 1750s: taking refuge in the surroundings Mountains he defied Spanish troops for more than a decade, though Peace returned to the Region in 1756 when he and his allies mysteriously disappeared.
Today Tarma is a quiet place, disturbed only by the flow of trucks climbing up towards the jungle foothills, and the Town's famous Easter Sunday procession from the Main Plaza, when the streets are covered by carpets of dazzling flowers.