Majes district
| Majes district | |||
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 Location of Majes District in Caylloma Province |
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| Country | Peru | ||
| region | Arequipa | ||
| province | Caylloma | ||
| Seat | El Pedregal | ||
| surface | 1,625.8 km² | ||
| Residents | 60,108 (2017) | ||
| density | 37 inhabitants per km² | ||
| founding | December 21, 1999 | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-ARE | ||
| Website | munimajes.gob.pe (Spanish) | ||
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| Alcalde District | Renée Dionicio Cáceres Falla (2019-2022) |
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Coordinates: 16 ° 22 ′ S , 72 ° 11 ′ W
The Majes District is located in the Caylloma Province in the Arequipa region in southwestern Peru . The district was established on December 21, 1999 from parts of the Lluta district . The 1625.8 km² district had 60,108 inhabitants at the 2017 census. Ten years earlier the population was 39,445. The administrative seat is the town of El Pedregal , which is 1410 m high . Irrigated agriculture is practiced in the vicinity of El Pedregal. The national road 1S ( Panamericana ) crosses the district in a north-easterly direction.
Geographical location
The Majes district is located 70 km west of the regional capital Arequipa in the southwest of the Caylloma province. It has a lengthwise extension in SSW-NNE direction of 70 km and a width of 28 km. The district extends over the desert-like coastal plain in southwestern Peru and reaches up to 10 km to the Pacific coast . The district lies between the rivers of Río Majes in the west and Río Siguas, right tributary of the Río Quilca , in the east. The mountains of the Peruvian Western Cordillera rise in the extreme north-northeast . The Majes district borders in the northeast with the Lluta district, in the southeast with the districts Santa Isabel de Siguas and San Juan de Siguas (both in the province of Arequipa ), in the south with the districts of Quilca and Samuel Pastor (both in the province of Camaná ), in the northwest to the district of Nicolás de Piérola (also in the province of Camaná) and the districts of Uraca and Huancarqui (both in the province of Castilla ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b PERU: Arequipa region - provinces and districts . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
