Pozuzo
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| Coordinates | 10 ° 4 ′ S , 75 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Peru | ||
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| province | Oxapampa | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-PAS | ||
| District | Pozuzo | ||
| height | 750 m | ||
| Residents | 1194 (2017) | ||
 Pozuzo collage
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Pozuzo is the capital of the district of the same name in the Oxapampa province ( Pasco region ) in the central east of Peru . Pozuzo is located at around 750 m above sea level on the Río Huancabamba and had 1,194 inhabitants at the 2017 census.
history
The Pozuzo valley was already inhabited by indigenous peoples before the Spanish colonization. The place is named after the Pozuzo stream, one of the source streams of the Huallaga . The word Pozuzo comes from the Amuesha (Yanesha) language and means "river with the salty water".
In 1859 the "Colony Pozuzo" was founded by Tyroleans, Rhinelanders and a few Bavarians. The emigrants were recruited by the German researcher and world traveler Kuno Damian von Schütz-Holzhausen . The group was headed by the Catholic priest Joseph Egg from Tyrol . In 1857 the group, consisting of 180 Tyroleans and 120 Rhinelanders and Bavarians, left Europe on board a freighter from Antwerp for Huacho . Of these, only 156 reached Pozuzo. A second immigrant group of 315 people followed in 1868. The 1958 census showed that of the 1465 inhabitants of Pozuzo at that time, 337 had exclusively Austrian and German ancestors and 517 had partially Austrian and German ancestors and that German was the first language for 497 of them.
The population lives mainly from agriculture (corn, tropical fruits such as bananas and oranges, coffee, tobacco, cattle breeding and sometimes coca cultivation) and from tourism.
According to a sign at the southern entrance to the village, Pozuzo calls itself in both German and Spanish "la única colonia Austro - Alemana del mundo - the only Austro-German colony in the world".
The place only received a road connection with the PE5NA since 1975. The road is unpaved and by and large has only one lane for both directions of travel, which is often lined with steep slopes and rock faces - the drive is only recommended for experienced drivers. Regular buses take around three and a half hours for the last 80 km to the town. A few kilometers south of the village, just behind the hamlet of Prusia ("Prussia"), there is a small airport.
Community partnerships
Movie
- 120 YEARS OF SOLITUDE: A German-Austrian colony in the jungle of Peru , Germany 2009–2011, a film by Jörg Förster and Jorge Marroquín-Winkelmann
- Pozuzo, a German-Tyrolean language island in Peru , Austria 2011, a film by Emanuel Bachnetzer
- Bananenstrudel Dirndl , Austria 2015, a film by Emanuel Bachnetzer
Radio broadcasts
- Pozuzo, a village in Peru A report (24 min) in the "Latitude" series on Bayern2 from May 19, 2012 by Tom Noga
Individual evidence
- ^ Oxapampa, Province in Pasco Region . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
- ^ Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle : The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0293-6 , pp. 696-741, here p. 703.
- ↑ a b Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle: The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, pp. 696-741, here p. 705.
- ^ Georg Petersen, Hartmut Fröschle: The Germans in Peru . In: Hartmut Fröschle (ed.): The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement . Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, pp. 696-741, here p. 706.
- ↑ "120 YEARS OF SOLITUDE". Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
- ^ Sandhill Pictures film production. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
literature
- Karl Schmid-Tannwald: Pozuzo. Forgotten in the jungle. A report from Peru . Book club Donauland, Vienna 1963.
- Wilfried Schabus: Pozuzo. Emigrants from Tyrol and Germany on the edge of the Amazon in Peru . University publishing house Wagner, Innsbruck 2016.
