Amotape District
| Amotape District | |
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 The district of Amotape is located in the north of the province of Paita (marked in red) |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Peru |
| region | Piura |
| province | Paita |
| Seat | Amotape |
| surface | 63.9 km² |
| Residents | 2437 (2017) |
| density | 38 inhabitants per km² |
| founding | October 8, 1840 |
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-PIU |
| politics | |
| Alcaldesa district | Melania Rojas Garcia (2019-2022) |
Coordinates: 4 ° 52 ′ 55 " S , 81 ° 0 ′ 55" W
The Amotape district is located in the Paita Province of the Piura region in northwestern Peru . The district was founded on October 8, 1840. It has an area of 63.9 km². At the 2017 census, 2,437 people lived in the district. In 1993 the population was 2222, in 2007 2305. The administrative center is the 12 m high village Amotape with 1300 inhabitants (as of 2017). Amotape is about 25 km north-northeast of the provincial capital Paita .
Geographical location
The Amotape district is located in the north of the Paita province. In the south, the district is bounded by the Río Chira , which flows west . In the north of the district there is desert vegetation.
The district of Amotape borders in the southwest on the districts El Arenal and Colán , in the west on the district Vichayal , in the north on the district La Brea ( province Talara ), in the east on the district Tamarindo and in the south on the district La Huaca .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peru: Piura - Provinces & Districts . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved June 11, 2020.