Callejon de Huaylas, a valley which extends on 160 km, at altitudes which vary from 1800 m to 4080 m, counts among the most beautiful areas of South America It is bordered in the East by Cordillera Blanca, the assembly line which gathers the greatest number of tops of more than 6.000 m of altitude after the Himalayas, and West by a chain lower, Cordillera Negra, equipped with a thin vegetation and seldom snow-covered as its name indicates it.

In the North of the valley takes shape impressing it gun del Pato, a narrow throat with the vertiginous cliffs at the bottom of which Rio Santa runs. Unfortunately, of many natural disasters fell down on the area (earthquake, run alluvia, floods, avalanches and landslides)
Huaraz, chief town of the department of Ancash, is the principal center of commercial activity and the point of passage obliged of the visitors of the area. It is an important city (70.000 H), modern and adapted well to the needs for tourism. The surroundings of Huaraz offer many possibilities of walks or one day excursions.

The small town of Caraz (2.200m), saved by the seisms, preserves its traditional architecture and all the charm which, before the seisms, characterized the cities of the valley.
A great part of Cordillera Blanca was transformed into natural reserve. The National park of Huascaran has as an aim the safeguarding of fauna and the flora local, of the archeological sites...
The principal tourist attraction of Callejon de Huaylas is undoubtedly the complex of Chavin de Huantar, one of oldest and the greatest archeological sites of Peru.