Located approximately 12 Kms, northwest of the city. Since inmemorable times, this bay was named Guaukocha which means "Beautiful Lagoon of Golden Fish" - In the highest part of the resort sits a beautiful, ancient, Colonial church. The Virgin of Succor, put ashore the 2nd of January, 1537 under King Charles V's commands, is venerated here. Dean Saavedra, a miraculous saint whose body has been maintained intact in an urn since 1707, is also venerated. It is the only ing fishing bay in all of the Peruvian North that maintains still standing thee totora rafts that were inherited by its ancestors.
