Tingo María is the capital of Leoncio Prado Province in the Huánuco Region in central Peru.

Near the city there is the Tingo María National Park of 180 km2 (43,000 acres (170 km2)) that preserves nature and a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman that sleeps.

It is called La Bella Durmiente (Spanish for Sleeping Beauty) or Pumarinri (Quechua for "cougar ear").

[1] A relevant industry working on Cacao is the Cooperativa Agroindustrial Naranjillo, that sells its products to foreign markets.

[citation needed] Tingo María has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen: Af)[2] with abundant rainfall.