Jauja, Peru

Peru

Jauja, Peru carries 44 Bunkabop connections with 1840 other places across 15 topics, with history, military, and architecture as the leading threads. Francisco Pizarro established the city, then known as Xauxa, as Peru's first capital in April 1534 after the Spanish sealed the conquest of Peru. Many of its connections run to Lima, Spain, and Ecuador, covering Gothic and Solomonic architecture and the Mantaro River valley. Director Lisandro Alonso's 2014 film Jauja competed in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.