Is located in the highlands of La Libertad. It's the capital of the Province of Otuzco, and it is well known because there is the sanctuary of the Gate Virgin. The Otuzcans, lead by Don José Corcuera (députée by the Province of Huamachuco) and Don Enemecio Orbegozo (son of the former President Marshal Luis José Orbegozo), who in 1856 have propossed a Law Project, that was unaccepted, later proposed a second Law Project, that was accepted by the National Congress on April 17, 1861, date when it's given the "Law of Creation of the Otuzco Province", in the Department of La Libertad.
The Otuzcan area has been inhabited since the upcoming of the first human groups in the Region of La Libertad. It was inhabited by the Yungas and the Quechuas.
Otuzco is an andean city inhabited by descendants of the old people of Perú, who mixed their blood with the people came from Spain, since the first years of Spanish domination. The ethnic is majoritary Mestizo.
