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CAJAMARCA, or CAXAMARCA

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 961 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAJAMARCA, or CAXAMARCA  , a See also:city of See also:northern See also:Peru, See also:capital of a See also:department and See also:province of the same name, go m . E. by N. of Pacasmayo, its See also:port on the Pacific See also:coast . Pop . (1906, estimate) of the department, 333,310; of the city, 9000 . The city is situated in an elevated valley between the Central and Western Cordilleras, 9400 ft. above See also:sea level, and on the Eriznejas, a small tributary of the Maranon . The streets are wide and See also:cross at right angles; the houses are generally See also:low and built of See also:clay . Among the notable public buildings are the old See also:parish See also:church built at the expense of See also:Charles II. of See also:Spain, the church of See also:San See also:Antonio, a Franciscan monastery, a nunnery, and the remains of the See also:palace of Atahualpa, the Inca ruler whom See also:Pizarro treacherously captured and executed in this See also:place in 1533 . The hot See also:sulphur springs of Pultamarca, called the Banos del Inca (Inca's See also:baths) are a See also:short distance See also:east of the city and are still frequented . See also:Cajamarca is an important commercial and manufacturing See also:town, being the distributing centre for a large inland region, and having See also:long-established manufactures of woollen and See also:linen goods, and of See also:metal See also:work, See also:leather, etc . It is the seat of one of the seven See also:superior courts of the See also:republic, and is connected with the coast by See also:telegraph and See also:telephone . A railway has been under-taken from Pacasmayo, on the coast, to Cajamarca, and by 1908 was completed as far as Yonan, 6o m. from its starting-point . The department of Cajamarca lies between the Western and Central Cordilleras and extends from the frontier of See also:Ecuador S. to about 7° S. iat., having the departments of See also:Piura and See also:Lambayeque on the W. and See also:Amazonas on the E .

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area according to See also:official returns is 12,542 sq. m . The upper Maranon traverses the department from S. to N . The department is an elevated region, well watered with a large number of small streams whose See also:waters eventually find their way through the See also:Amazon into the See also:Atlantic . Many of its productions are of the temperate See also:zone, and considerable See also:attention is given to See also:cattle-raising . See also:Coal is found in the province of Hualgayoc at the See also:southern extremity of the department, which is also one of the See also:rich See also:silver-See also:mining districts of Peru . Next to its capital the most important town of the department is Cajamarquilla, whose See also:population was about 6000 in 1906 .

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