One of Limas best-kept secrets

No more than 25 Km. to the south of Lima, capital city of Peru, is a little-known hacienda where you can experience nature on the coast, ancestral customs, links with the Inca past and the incomparable Peruvian paso horse.

The traditional life of an hacienda
The Rizo Patron family, owners of Mamacona hacienda has traditionally been involved in farming and livestock, as well as breeding this noble and unique animal.
The family exhibits the horses at the principal shows held in Lima and other provinces of Peru, and abroad.
They have opened the hacienda to foreign visitors in order to demonstrate the rich customs of the old families of Peru so closely linked to the land and this national symbol.

Great creole cooking
A mixture of pre-Columbian dishes and the Spanish and Moorish influences that came over with the conquest has given us a delicious and varied cuisine in which spices enrich meats, fish, root and other vegetables and rice in sophisticated dishes of popular origin. One of the traditions of the Mamacona Hacienda is good Creole cooking.

The elegant paso horse
A house full of memories in a pleasing rural setting. In the sunny grounds is that classical expression of coastal culture: the Peruvian paso horse. This noble animal is a descendant of Andalusian and Arab horses brought to the Americas by the conquistadors. Breeding and the environment have transformed these ancestral lines into a unique type of horse, characterised by its elegant gait (with its feet parallel), making it seem as though it is dancing rather than trotting. At Mamacona hacienda you can see the skilled work of the riders and trainers of this fine species.