Tropical
Radio Tropical Tarapoto
Tarapoto, Peru
Emisora peruana desde Tarapoto con cumbia y ritmos tropicales de la selva.
Who Radio Tropical Tarapoto is
Radio Tropical Tarapoto broadcasts from Tarapoto, a city in the Amazonian region of San Martin, deep in the Peruvian jungle. It is a station that breathes the sound of the Amazon, that jungle cumbia with a color of its own inside the Peruvian tradition.
In an area of heat, rivers and thick vegetation, the station puts a beat to tropical life with the Amazonian cumbia born in these lands.
What you will hear
Here Amazonian cumbia plays in its purest state: Los Mirlos, with their famous Danza de los Mirlos, and Juaneco y su Combo, the groups that defined the jungle sound with electric guitars and rhythms that evoke the forest.
The repertoire mixes those Amazonian classics with tropical cumbia from across the country, in a style recognizable by its humid, guitar-driven groove.
Tarapoto and jungle cumbia
Amazonian cumbia was born in the Peruvian jungle when groups like Los Mirlos and Juaneco y su Combo took cumbia and dressed it with psychedelic guitars and the atmosphere of the forest. It was a sound that came out of the Amazon and won over the whole country.
Listening to a station from Tarapoto is a way to hear that jungle origin, where cumbia sounds different, greener and more humid, true to the land that gave birth to it.
If that guitar sound grabs you, read about what psychedelic cumbia is and its link to the Peruvian jungle.
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