Yarinacocha District
| Yarinacocha District | |
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 Location of the district in the Ucayali region |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Peru |
| region | Ucayali |
| province | Coronel Portillo |
| Seat | Puerto Callao |
| surface | 662 km² |
| Residents | 103,941 (2017) |
| density | 157 inhabitants per km² |
| founding | October 16, 1964 |
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-UCA |
| Website | muniyarinacocha.gob.pe (Spanish) |
| politics | |
| Alcaldesa district | Jerly Díaz Chota (2019-2022) |
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Coordinates: 8 ° 21 ′ S , 74 ° 35 ′ W
The Yarinacocha district is located in the Coronel Portillo Province in the Ucayali region in east-central Peru . The district was established on October 16, 1964. The Yarinacocha District has an area of 662 km². The 2017 census counted 103,941 inhabitants. The administrative seat of the district is the 153 m high city of Puerto Callao with 93,248 inhabitants (as of 2017). Puerto Callao is located on the south bank of the Laguna Yarinacocha , a separate western oxbow lake of the Río Ucayali , and forms a northern suburb of the provincial and regional capital Pucallpa .
Geographical location
The Yarinacocha district is located in the central north of the Coronel Portillo Province. It is located on the western edge of the Amazon basin on the western bank of the Río Ucayali immediately north of the city of Pucallpa. In the north it extends to the confluence of the Río Aguaytía in the Río Ucayali. Wetlands extend along the rivers. There is also another lake in the district, the Laguna Cashibococha. The population is concentrated in the Pucallpa metropolitan area in the far south of the district.
The district of Yarinacocha is bordered to the southwest by the Campoverde district , to the northwest by the Nueva Requena district and to the east and south by the Callería district .
history
Yarinacocha has been developing rapidly since the second half of the 20th century in the course of the development of the rainforest and thanks to increasing tourism. In the mid-1920s, Yarinacocha was a secluded village with about 150 inhabitants inhabited by Shipibo-Conibo . In 1993 the population was 35,582, in 2007 it was 85,605.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b PERU: Ucayali region - provinces and districts . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- ↑ Günter Tessmann: People without God. A visit to the Ucayali Indians . Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1928, p. 12.
