Sihuas Province
The province of Sihuas is one of the twenty that make up the department of Ancash in Peru. It limits by the North with the province of Pallasca; by the East with the department of La Libertad; to the south with the province of Pomabamba and; by the West with the province of Huaylas and the province of Corongo.
History
An original reference is made by Miguel de Estete, from the tornaviaje of Hernando Pizarro and his entourage, who traveled from Cajamarca to Pachacamac, and on the way back, passed through Sihuas; exactly by 'Agoa', a clear reference to the current Aqush neighborhood, through which the Inca Trail passed.
When it met on September 6, 1826, in Piscobamba, the capital of the province of Conchucos, the Sihuas sent their delegates who approved the Bolivarian Constitution, as a doctrine, equivalent to a district. In 1834 it was granted the capital of the province of Conchucos, which held it until February 21, 1861, in which the feudatory interests of the Bieytes and Terry and the pettiness of Ramón Castilla, extirpated the aforementioned province and gave way to the provinces of Pomabamba and Pallasca (capital Corongo). Sihuas has maintained the status of district since that date, until January 9, 1961, when his illustrious son, Luis Porturas Mancebo obtained the law that claimed the unfairly withdrawn provinciality, for a century.
Three characters are linked to the history of Sihuas: the priest Mariano Llanos, who helped to forge national independence with material resources, printed from Sihuas, contact with the libertarians of Huarás, creator of inflamed and anti-realist rhetoric. Another is the cavalry colonel, Francisco de Borja Rodríguez, who served several times as sub-prefect of the province of Conchucos, collaborated with San Martín, Bolívar, Santa Cruz; his star eclipsed after the destruction of the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation on January 20, 1839. In exchange for his services, he was benefited with the delivery of funds and haciendas such as Miraflores, Colcabamba, Chaupijirca in Piscobamba. The third of this saga is Joaquín Llanos, whose place of birth is not specified; participant in the war between Chile and Peru, in 1879-1884, he ended up owning the estates of Piac and La Merced, in the province of Mariscal Luzuriaga
Antonio Raimondi, when referring to the cultural and educational advantage of the Sihuas, compared to the other districts of Pomabamba, puts it as an effort of the Llanos: Fermín and Mariano.
Toponymy and Quechua
Genesis of name
The name would come from the Quechua voice Shikwaq, something that can be dropped; This is due to the orographic conformation of pronounced chasms on whose bed the urban area is based. In this metamorphosis: shikwaq > siwaq > siwas. Although tradition claims that it was founded in memory of a Spanish city, called Sigüenza. When the province of Pomabamba was created, they mention the town of Siguas (sic) as a member of said province.
Quechua
In the capital city, which seems to be an emerging conglomerate and has a diverse physiognomy, they normally speak Spanish, obviously Andean Spanish. On the other hand, the peasants use Quechua among themselves, although they hide speaking to strangers. There is a forced division that speaks of Quechua-Ancash-Sihuas, often an academic work from the Summer Institute; The issue is where there are Quechua speakers, basic education in Quechua should be provided and Spanish should be taught as a second language, in accordance with the Constitution and Unicef plans.
Administrative division
This province is divided into ten districts:
- Sihuas
- Acobamba (Aqu pampa, sand plain)
- Alfonso Ugarte
- Cashapampa (Kasha pampa, spine plain)
- Chingalpo (Tsinkaq allpa, hidden land or 'Tsinkarpuy': for hide)
- Huayllabamba (Wayllapanpa grass plain)
- Quiches (Kitsi, wood)
- Ragash (Raqash, says it is platyrene or potato variety)
- St. John (John of Chullín, Tsurin, son or daughter of man)
- Sicsibamba (from Siqsipanpa, sacuara plain = siqsi)
Capital
The capital of this province is the city of Sihuas, of great economic development at the same time as San Luis de Áncash, the most thriving capitals of Eastern Ancash so far this century XXI, except for the unconditional support given to César Álvarez Aguilar at Club Ancash on January 9, 2014.
Political power
Regionals
- Regional adviser
- 2019 - 2022: Ernesto Raúl Padilla Castillo (Alianza para el Progreso)
- 2019 - 2022
- Mayor: Eduardo Hernán Giraldo Fontenla, Alliance for Progress.
- Regivers:
- César Gerardo Sánchez Quiñones (Alliance for Progress)
- Iliat Nain Silvestre Bermúdez (Alliance for Progress)
- Nel Alfredo Santiago Martínez (Alianza para el Progreso)
- Olimpio Vega Carrillo (Alliance for Progress)
- Julia Mercedes Román Tarazona (Alliance for Progress)
- Gabriel Timoteo Príncipe Rosales (Regional Independent Movement of Santa Caudaloso River)
- Norma Teodora Ponte Berástegui (Regional Independent Movement of Santa Caudaloso River)
Police
- Commissioner: SB PNP BARRETO MANRRIQUE Alberto
Popular Culture
Each district has its employer party. However, the best known holidays are "Virgen de las Nieves", whose central day is August 5, just like that of Coracora-Ayacucho-, in the provincial capital: Sihuas; and the other "Virgin of the Nativity", central date on September 8, in Quiches.
The second important party in Sihuas, is that of San Francisco de Asís of the Agoshirca neighborhood, including even bullfight in some years when the party commission or stewardly schedule it like this; Then comes the Lord of Milagros, central day on October 28. Different institutions adorn and decorate religious images and motifs, with chips of different colors, on the streets of the Plaza del Barrio pingullo , similar to Tarma for the Lord of Ramos.
Christmas December 25, the New Year, January 1, Reyes (sic) January 6: They are provincial festivities. At Christmas, the gift presence of panetones, milk chocolate that are replacing the Chichincaldo and the traditional bulls of fed up egg and flour the Andean dress pastors and also of mestizo reminiscence; What Fontenla described in his "monograph of Sihuas" has changed. However, Julio Vidal Vidal paints us- in his "evocations"- the current celebration.
Outstanding citizens
- Marcelino Valverde Solórzano. Natural de Sihuas; he fought in the battle of Two May 1866, against the Spanish Navy that tried to invade the territories Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The first national school in Sihuas has been named since its creation in 1963.
- Alejandro Yzaguirre Valverde (Peruvian Army Colonel) Combatant of the Peruvian-Ecuadorian conflict of 1941; principal manager of the political creation of the Sihuas Province. Promoter and promoter of the transoceanic road of Chimbote Sihuas, Huacrachuco, Uchiza, Pucallpa, Puerto Huite (Brazil) that culminated in the passing of the Law No. 15212 in 1963 that declares "Necessity and Public Utility its construction (from last year it already arrives in Uchiza). Chief of Reconstruction of the area affected by the earthquake of 10 November 1946 (Planned and urbanized the neighborhoods of Pingullo Alto and Bajo in the provincial capital, the city of Quiches, Chingalpo, Conchucos (Pallasca).