Huánuco region

Huánuco region
Symbols
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Basic data
Country	Peru
Capital	Huánuco
surface	36,848.9 km²
Residents	860,500 (2015)
density	23 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	PE-HUC
Website	www.regionhuanuco.gob.pe/oficial/ (Spanish)
politics
Gobernador regional	Juan Alvarado Cornelio (2019-2022)
Provinces of the Huánuco region

Coordinates: 9 ° 53 ′  S , 76 ° 16 ′  W

The region Huánuco [ ˈwanuko ] (Spanish. Región Huánuco , Departamento de Huánuco , Quechua Wanuku suyu ) is an administrative region in Peru . It is located in the Andes of central Peru. In 2015, 860,500 people lived in an area of ​​36,848.85 km². The administrative seat is the city of Huánuco .

geography

The glaciated mountain group Huayhuash in the Peruvian Western Cordillera is located in the far west of the region. Its highest mountain is the Yerupajá , with 6632 meters the second highest mountain in Peru. The upper catchment area of the Río Marañón extends over the west of Huánuco. The Río Huallaga flows through the central part of the region in a northerly direction and passes through the capital. The province of Puerto Inca in the east is drained by the Río Pachitea , a tributary of the Río Ucayali .

Provinces

The Huánuco region is divided into eleven provinces with a total of 77 districts.

province	Capital
Ambo	Ambo
Dos de Mayo	La Unión
Huacaybamba	Huacaybamba
Huamalíes	Llata
Huánuco	Huánuco
Lauricocha	Jesus
Leoncio Prado	Tingo María
Marañón	Huacrachuco
Pachitea	Panao
Puerto Inca	Puerto Inca
Yarowilca	Chavinillo

literature

• Donald E. Thompson: Peasant Inca Villages in the Huánuco Region . In: Jorge Enrique Hardoy, Erwin Walter Palm , Richard P. Schaedel (ed.): Negotiations of the XXXVIII. International Americanist Congress. Stuttgart and Munich August 12-18, 1968 . Klaus Renner Verlag, Munich 1972, Vol. 4, pp. 61-66.

Web links

Commons : Region Huánuco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Regional government of the Huánuco region