Colcabamba District (Tayacaja)
| Colcabamba district | |
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 Location of the district (before the newly founded districts split off) in Tayacaja Province (marked in white) |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Peru |
| region | Huancavelica |
| province | Tayacaja |
| Seat | Colcabamba |
| surface | 325 km² |
| Residents | 11,068 (2017) |
| density | 34 inhabitants per km² |
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-HUV |
| Website | municolcabamba.gob.pe (Spanish) |
| politics | |
| Alcalde District | Víctor Pariona Barrios (2019-2022) |
| Political party | Movimiento Regional Ayni |
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Coordinates: 12 ° 25 ′ S , 74 ° 41 ′ W
The Colcabamba district is located in the Tayacaja Province of the Huancavelica region in central Peru . The district has an area of 325 km². In the 2017 census, 11,068 people lived in the district. The district administration is located in the small town of Colcabamba at an altitude of 2979 m with 2747 inhabitants (as of 2017). Colcabamba is about 20 km east of the provincial capital Pampas and almost 70 km southeast of the city of Huancayo . On November 14, 2014, the newly established districts of Andaymarca (east of the Río Mantaro ) and Quichuas (in the south of the Colcabamba district) were separated from the Colcabamba district. In the district there is the Cerro del Águila dam and the Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo and Restitución hydropower plants of the Mantaro power plant complex . The district is therefore also called Capital Energetica del Peru ("Energy Capital of Peru").
Geographical location
The Colcabamba district is located in the Peruvian Central Cordillera in the northeast of the Tayacaja Province. The lower reaches of the Río Mantaro flows north along the eastern district boundary.
The Colcabamba district borders on the Quichuas district in the south, the Daniel Hernández district in the west, the Andaymarca district in the north and the Chinchihuasi district ( Churcampa province ) in the east .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peru: Huancavelica - Provinces & Districts . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
