Cajamarca region
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| Country | Peru | ||
| Capital | Cajamarca | ||
| surface | 33,317.5 km² | ||
| Residents | 1,529,800 (2015) | ||
| density | 46 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | PE-CAJ | ||
| Website | www.regioncajamarca.gob.pe (Spanish) | ||
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| Gobernador regional | Mesías Guevara Amasifuén (2019-2022) | ||
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Coordinates: 7 ° 10 ′ S , 78 ° 31 ′ W
The region of Cajamarca [ kaxaˈmaɾka ] ( Spanish Región Cajamarca , Cajamarca-Quechua Kashamarka shuyu ) is a region in the north of the Peruvian Andes. The capital is Cajamarca . In the north the region borders on Ecuador .
Capital
The regional capital is Cajamarca .
Geography and climate
The Cajamarca region covers an area of 33,317 km². In the south of the Cajamarca region, the high Andes predominate, in the north they merge into hot tropical rainforest. The regional capital is located at about 2700 meters above sea level. d. M. The average annual temperature in the region capital is around 14 ° C. The rainy season usually lasts from December to March. The main rivers are Río Marañón , Río Chotano and Río Huancabamba . The highest peaks are the Coimolache with 4010 m , between Hualgayoc and San Miguel, and the Cumbe with 3850 m , near Cajamarca.
population
in 2015 there were 1,529,800 people in the Cajamarca region. The population density is 46 inhabitants / km².
| 1981 | 1993 | 2007 | 2010 | 2015 |
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| 1,063,474 | 1,297,835 | 1,387,809 | 1,500,600 | 1,529,800 |
history
Probably the oldest ceramics that were made in Peru were produced by the Cajamarca culture and thus come from this region.
After the conquest by the Wari people, Cajamarca became an important administrative center. The Inca also made Cajamarca a regional capital.
In 1532 the Inca ruler Atahualpa was captured in the Plaza of Cajamarca by the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro and his army . As a ransom Atahualpa offered to fill one room with gold and two neighboring rooms with silver. Pizarro agreed to this, but then had him executed despite payment.
Provinces
The Cajamarca region is divided into 13 provinces and 128 districts.
traffic
In addition to some important road connections to the west and east, Cajamarca also has an airport, Cajamarca Airport , which Lima has regular flights to. There are also regular flights from Cajamarca to Talara . Another airport is in Jaén de Bracamoros .
literature
in order of appearance
- José Dammert Bellido : Procesos por supersticiones en la provincia de Cajamarca en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII . In: Allpanchis. Revista del Instituto de Pastoral Andina , ISSN 0252-8835 , vol. 16 (1984), special issue 23: Propuestas. Historia y Religión , pp. 179-200.
- Working group “Information from South America”: “We make our own history!” Peasant struggles in Cajamarca . Agricultural literature sales, Stuttgart 1976.
- Alexander von Humboldt : The highlands of Cajamarca . In: Leo Deuel (ed.): Cultures before Columbus. The adventure of archeology in Latin America. A historical overview with original reports . CH Beck, Munich, 2nd, reviewed edition 1979, ISBN 3-406-05989-9 , pp. 19-25.
- Carlos Frías: Hacia una nueva propuesta tecnológica: el rol de la manufactura y las ciudades en el desarrollo de zonas rurales como Cajamarca . In: Allpanchis. Revista del Instituto de Pastoral Andina , ISSN 0252-8835 , vol. 26 (1994), special issue 43/44: El Futuro de los Andes , pp. 185-208.
- Rolando Estela Díaz: Las Devociones a los Santos en Cajamarca, Perú . Lumen Vitae, Brussels 1996.
Web links
- http://www.regioncajamarca.gob.pe/ Regional government of the Cajamarca region
Amazon | Ancash | Apurímac | Arequipa | Ayacucho | Cajamarca | Callao | Cusco | Huancavelica | Huánuco | Ica | Junín | La Libertad | Lambayeque | Lima | Loreto | Madre de Dios | Moquegua | Pasco | Piura | Puno | San Martín | Tacna | Tumbes | Ucayali
Lima Province (region-free area of the capital)