Maynas Province

Maynas Province
Location of the province in the Loreto region
Basic data
Country	Peru
region	Loreto
Seat	Iquitos
surface	76,167 km²
Residents	479,866 (2017)
density	6.3 inhabitants per km²
founding	1853
ISO 3166-2	PE-LOR
Website	www.munimaynas.gob.pe (Spanish)
politics
Alcalde Provincial	Francisco Sanjurjo Dávila (2019-2022)
Mazan

Coordinates: 3 ° 8 ′  S , 73 ° 57 ′  W

The Maynas Province is located in the Loreto region in northeastern Peru . The province has an area of ​​76,167 km². At the 2017 census, 479,866 people lived in the province. Ten years earlier the population was 62,165. The administrative seat is in the city ​​of Iquitos on the Amazon .

Geographical location

The province of Maynas is located in the northeast of the Loreto region in the Amazon lowlands . The south-east of the province is traversed by the Amazon. The province has a maximum longitudinal extent in NNW-SSE direction of about 480 km and a width of 140 km. The north of the province is traversed by the Río Itaya and Río Nanay and the Río Napo .

In the northwest the province of Maynas extends to the state border with Ecuador . In the northeast, the province borders on the province of Putumayo , in the southeast on the province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla , in the south on the province of Requena and in the west on the province of Loreto .

Administrative division

Maynas Province is divided into eleven districts. The district of Iquitos is the seat of the provincial administration.

District	Administrative headquarters
Alto Nanay	Santa Maria de Nanay
Belén	Belén
Fernando Lores	Tamshiyacu
Indiana	Indiana
Iquitos	Iquitos
Las Amazonas	Francisco de Orellana
Mazan	Mazan
Napo	Santa Clotilde
Punchana	Punchana
San Juan Bautista	San Juan
Torres Causana	Cabo Pantoja

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maynas, Province in Loreto Region . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved November 30, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Province of Maynas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files