Celendín

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The province of Celendín was created by law of September 30, 1862. Originally it had 4 districts: Celendín, Chumuch, Huasmín and Lucmapampa. At present, the province of Celendín has 12 districts: Celendín, the capital; Chumuch, Cortegana, Huasmín, Jorge Chávez, José Gálvez, Miguel Iglesias, Oxamarca, Sorochuco, Sucre, Utco and The Freedom of Pallán.

A poem of Luz Chávez Mendoza reads: " With so much emulation the Gentleman was working at any time, that his fecund perspiration dyed of red the seas and the divine cherub that helped him in the task, díjole: Gentleman, Celendín must be called this ground ”.

The province of Celendín is famous for its chocolate and for its sombreros of straw “ shawl “ painted, rivals of the sombreros of Catacaos (Piura) and of those of Panama. The straw shawl is brought of Moyobamba and Rioja (Department of St Martin). Already in 1944, Celendín was offering the impressive record of more than 100,000 sombreros made to hand, so thin, that rolled up happen for the ring of ring, without breaking. They were so many sombreros, which as brilliant Julio Garrido Malaver was saying: " In Celendín there were more sombreros than heads ”.

It tells an anecdote, on this matter, that Augusto Gil Velásquez, merchant of sombreros celendinos, in certain opportunity, took in strong person lot of sombreros celendinos to Europe, it sold them rapidly and knowing that the king of England, George VI, who was the masculine umpire of the fashion in Europe, was in Buckingham, it moved to the above mentioned locality and placed, after not little efforts, with its own hands sombrero celendino in the head of the English monarch.

Celendín is a ground inclined to rich and beautiful folklore, which it supports as vital part of his daily chore, is a happy people and dicharachero, like that Alfonso Peláez Bazán proves it when he gathers the poems that this way sound: " Three big days it has the woman celendina, the day of his marriage, the day in which a dirty person kills and the day that his husband dies ”.

In the ground shilica laborious and enterprising families settled as that of the Aguilar, I them Died, the Potosí, the Hoc, them Red, the Carrascal, the Gómez, the García, the Zavaleta, the Cortegana, the Texada, the Pereyra, the Burga, the Zegarra, the Araujo, the Velásquez, those of the Cross, the Miscellany, the Díaz, the Pediment, the Chacón, the Horna, It kills, the Velásquez, the Quevedo, the Rodríguez, the Chávez, those of the Tower, the Sánchez, the Chestnut grove, etc, etc.

Towards the second half of the XVIIIth century, the richest and varied agricultural production of Celendín was reaching ideal levels. Every estate not only was obtaining an enormous quantity of agricultural and cattle production, if not that turns in obraje, that is to say, into real centers of textile manufacture thanks to the heyday of the wool cattle. Between the biggest obrajes of the corregimiento who settle in Celendín, there is that of Saint John Bautista de Pallán, who was working with 34 winches, with his current bobbins and of iron to spin plots of pañetes and blankets; 4 looms with his combs and smooth for slangs, pañetes and sayales and a warper. There were woven in this obraje annually 2,300 poles of pañete, 50 blankets, a piece of dishcloth and three pieces of slang. Another obraje of fame was that of the Treasury of Jérez that was producing annually more than thousand poles of pañete, 800 of slang, 800 of dishcloth and 15 blankets. The dishcloth of this obraje was one of the best. In the year 1780 the quotation of one of a pole of dishcloth of Jérez was real 2,5 and of a pole slang was real 2.

Celendín, noble and haughty people, is traditional in his worships, as call like that does it, with the famous “ Virgin of the Returns ”, because the procession of the boss, The Virgin of Carmen, turns for the peoples celendinos, as the Christian calendar marks it.