La Merced (Junin)
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 4 ′ S , 75 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Peru | ||
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| province | Chanchamayo | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-JUN | ||
| District | Chanchamayo | ||
| height | 751 m | ||
| Residents | 24,629 (2017) | ||
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La Merced is the capital of the province Chanchamayo in the region Junin in Peru . La Merced had 24,629 inhabitants in 2017. 10 years earlier the population was 21,885.
Geographical location
The city is located in the Peruvian Central Cordillera at an altitude of 751 m . It is located 75 kilometers as the crow flies east of the city of Junín and 220 kilometers northeast of the state capital Lima . It is 305 km from Lima to La Merced on the paved road. It is located on the west bank of the Río Chanchamayo , which joins the Río Paucartambo to the Río Perené further north .
history
La Merced emerged from a settlement of Italian colonists who had settled there in 1872.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b La Merced, in Chanchamayo (Junín Region), Urban Main Locality . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ↑ Pilar García Jordán, Núria Sala i Vila (ed.): La nacionalización de la Amazonía . Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 1998, ISBN 84-475-1926-0 , p. 131.
- ↑ María Belén Soria Casaverde: Colonización amazónica, 1884-1900 . Seminario de Historia Rural Andina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 2007, ISBN 978-9972-231-18-6 , p. 31.
Web links
Commons : La Merced - collection of images, videos and audio files
