Moquegua region

Moquegua region
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Basic data
Country	Peru
Capital	Moquegua
surface	15,734 km²
Residents	180,500 (2015)
density	11 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	PE MOQ
Website	www.regionmoquegua.gob.pe/web13/ (Spanish)
politics
Gobernador regional	Zenón Cuevas Pare (2019-2022)
Provinces of the Moquegua region

Coordinates: 17 ° 13 ′  S , 70 ° 54 ′  W

The Moquegua region [ moˈkeɣa ] (Spanish Región Moquegua , Quechua Muqiwa suyu ) is a region in southern Peru and borders the Pacific . 180,500 people (2015) live in an area of ​​15,733.97 km ² . The capital is Moquegua .

geography

The landscape is mountainous and flat along the river valleys of the Río Tambo and Río Moquegua . The highest mountain is the Ubinas volcano with a height of 5672 meters.

The main port city is Ilo .

population

After Puno and Tacna, the Moquegua region is the region in Peru with the third highest proportion of Aymara native speakers (12.9%). The most common mother tongue in the region is Spanish (78.2%), followed by Quechua (8.7%).

Provinces

The region is divided into three provinces and 20 districts.

province	Capital
General Sánchez Cerro	Omate
Ilo	Ilo
Mariscal Nieto	Moquegua

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Citypopulation.de Moquegua accessed on July 16, 2011
2. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica: 2017 census. Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar. Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Spanish).