V Ecosports Festival of Tres Cañones-Suykutambo 2012

Arequipenian team awarded by Autocolca

by the Colca Specialist

The 29 of April the arequipenian team came back home after two days of exciting competition.

The much awaited river rafting competition between Arequipa and Cusco never took place because the judges couldn´t arrive on time to the event.That was the excuse the authorities gave to the sportsmen but as everybody knows there was an organized clearly seen boicot against the event. The lack of experience and profesionalism of the representative of the Municipality of Espinar Juan Tapia Vargas made the situation even more complicated .

The Festival continued and the people had the oportunity of enjoying intense exhibitions performed by the different teams.

The arequipenian Rafter Gustavo Rondón Alvarez and his River Rafting Team Expediciones y Aventuras did a wonderful show in the river that everybody enjoyed . Kids were the most enthusiastic during the exhibitions. The member of the River Rats Guillermo Rendon Cuadros was there also with a small raft having fun in the river.

The second day Rappeling and Zip Lining exhibitions were really impressive.

The team of Sacred Road Xtreme directed by the well known rock and mountainclimbing instructor Arcadio Mamani Viza gave a a real show to all those who were present there in The Three Canyons of Suykutambo.

Jose Arias suffered a small accident the first day in the zip lining exhibition.

The second day the team was reforced with the presence of Guillermo Rendón Cuadros,the well known Kamikaze Nitro who left the raft inside the hotel and the second day joined Arcadios Sacred Road Xtreme Team.

Everybody there was eager to see the xtreme sports champion performing his favorite crazy maneuvers.

His first jump was dedicated to his fellow Jose Arias who the previous day had an unexpected accident during the zip lining exhibition.

Jose Arias accepted the dedicatory and Guillermo Rendón “The Kamikaze Nitro” performed his favorite maneuver “The Fallen Angel” which provoked the reaction of the locals who considered the most beautiful and xtreme maneuver during the whole Festival,maneuver that was awarded by the people through an intense clapping that lasted after his landing. A picture taken by one of the spectators was chosen to prepare a souvenir poster of the event.

After the Festival all teams came back home happy of the work well done other unhappy because they were unoticed during all the festival such as the kayaking team from Calca-Cusco who were a complete dissapointement specially after all the propaganda done by their representatives.A real disaster!

In Arequipa, Autocolca awarded all the arequipenian sportmen and Dr Freddy Jimenez Rios is now organizing a sports festival in Cabanaconde, Colca Canyon and it seems that we are going to have the option of watching Guillermo Rendón performing the “fallen angel maneuver and other xtreme tricks“in the Colca Canyon! That would be great!That would be massive!

Everybody is awaiting for the press conference in order to have more details about this event that promises a lot.

Congratulations to all the participants and the Colca Specialist will be sharing with you more details about the oncoming events in Arequipa.

The Colca Specialist.

ASGUIP TUCAY EN LA I COMPETENCIA DE CANOTAJE MAS ALTA DEL MUNDO

por The Colca Specialist

El Pdte de la Asociación de Guias de Turismo de Caylloma Prof. Cesar Neyra Nuñez anunció en conferencia de prensa que la institución que el dirige brindará su apoyo incondicional a la delegación de deportistas que participarán en el V FESTIVAL ECODEPORTIVO DE TRES CAÑONES SUYKUTAMBO,evento en el que se realizará la I COMPETENCIA DE CANOTAJE MÁS ALTO DEL MUNDO la misma que se realizará en el rio Apurimac a 4,014 mts sobre el nivel del mar .

Para nosotros es motivo de orgullo que uno de los deportistas rankeados invitados a participar en esta competencia sea nada menos que uno de los miembros de nuestra institución por lo que estamos seguros que Caylloma estará muy bien representada en dicha competencia.

Todo Caylloma está ya a la expectativa de los resultados de esta competencia la misma que pondrá en evidencia la fama de la que gozan los canoistas del Cañón del Colca.

Cesar Neyra Nuñez a su vez indicó que esta a la espera de una respuesta por parte de las autoridades de Caylloma para la coordinación de actividades de promoción turística de la los atractivos turísticos de la provincia de Caylloma.

V ECOSPORTS FESTIVAL OF TRES CAÑONES-SUYKUTAMBO 2012

The best adventure sports festival of all the south of Peru is going to be in Espinar province in Cusco!

by the Colca Specialist

Tres cañones (Three canyons),a beautiful natural marvel located in Suykutambo district in the cuzquenian province of Espinar, Cusco will be this 27 and 28 of April the scenery where all the most recognized xtreme sportsmen from all the country will meet in a festival which is going to be historical.

The difference with the past festivals (whose lack of importance and trascendence was notorious) is that for this year the organizers who belong to the proyect called Mintur E of the Municipality of Espinar province decided to break all the established schemes and they put a strong emphasis in QUALITY and not in QUANTITY with the purpose of improving not only the festival but also the extreme sports exhibitions and the marketing of the event.

Because of these reasons,this festival before being done has received several congratulations from the different media and it was already qualified as “the best sports extreme sports festival in all the south of Peru”,”event of the year 2012” and all thanks to the organizers who decided to re-structure the festival which comes back this time to the scene but this time with the best extreme sportmen from Peru.

Now that the house is clean there is no place for the improvised sportsmen but just for the headliners.

In this festival there is going to be several adventure sports exhibitions. Such as Cross country and downhill mountainbiking, rock climbing,rappeling,zip lining,kayaking among other alternative activities such as hiking and horse riding to the different touristic attractions of Espinar-Cusco.

The most important activity which is going to make the difference in this festival is going to be THE FIRST WORLDS HIGHEST RIVER RAFTING COMPETITION which will take place in Apurimac river. The distance to be covered is going to be 8km aprox and the river¨s altitude: is 4014 meters above sea level.(13,169 feet).

The favorite teams in this competition are the locals from Cusco and those from Arequipa.We know that the rivalty between this guys will be enough to make them fight ´til death for a place in the podium. The purpose of this competition is of course very obvious to break a Guinness world record for Espinar-Cusco.

The arequipenian dream team is integrated by 17 ranked sportmen in the different specialities of xtreme adventure sports.

The four “aces” of the arequipenian team are Arcadio Mamani Viza, recognized mountainclimbing instructor from Arequipa and ex member of the expeditions done by National Geographic and Discovery Channel.

Juan Justinien Mamani Becerra,son of Arcadio Mamani. Juan is a trekking guide from CEAM and one of the best rock climbers in all Arequipa.(Arcadio and Juan see picture below).

Gustavo Francisco Rondón Alvarez. Member of the team Expediciones y Aventuras. Gustavo is a lover of Kayaking and River Rafting. Gustavo is a very experienced Rafter and kayaker from Arequipa who is going to be showing his skills in Apurimac river.

The other ace in this full hand of winners is going to be recordman Guillermo “Kamikaze Nitro”Rendón Cuadros famous because of its feats in mountainbiking and in other xtreme sports.

Guillermo Rendón is coming back to the River Rafting World after his participation in the PERUVIAN RIVER RAFTING EXPEDITION DISCOVERY which was done in the upper part of Colca Valley in Condoroma area which was considered as one of the worlds highest river rafting expeditions.That expedition was organized by Maurilio and Paul Zuñiga, which belong to the most famous family of river rafters in Arequipa: Zuñiga-Cuba family.

Condecorated by different authorities and goverment institutions Guillermo who was recently declared as “The proud of Arequipa” and “Adoptive son of Caylloma province”comes back again but this time as member of his own river rafting team : THE RIVER RATS.

As part of the event of the year there will be musical shows and of course the unmissing traditional gastronomy contest!

The big party is going to be in Tres Cañones Cusco and all of you are invited to participate in the event of the year!

Espinar is awaiting for you!

The Colca Specialist