Tingo Maria
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Tingo María is the capital of Leoncio Prado province in the Huánuco region in central Peru. It has a population of around 25,000.
Tingo María was considered unreachable until 1936, when the Montaña Road reached the settlement. It was then that the state run Estacion Experimental Agricola was established due to its "comfortable" elevation (2,204 feet). In 1942, the U.S. Government began adding additional funding to the station, and by 1960 over 40,000 acres of land were under cultivation, especially along the Huallaga River valley where land was level. Coffee was a particularly valuable crop.
[edit] Reference
Eidt, Robert C.; "Pioneer Settlement in Eastern Peru," Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Vol. 52, No. 3. (Sep., 1962); pp. 255-278.
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