Pasco region

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Pasco region
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Basic data
Country Peru
Capital Cerro de Pasco
surface 25,319 km²
Residents 304,200 (2015)
density 12 inhabitants per km²
founding November 27, 1944
ISO 3166-2 PE-PAS
Website www.regionpasco.gob.pe/wps/ (Spanish)
politics
Gobernador regional Pedro Ubaldo Polinar (2019-2022)
Provinces in the Pasco region
Provinces in the Pasco region

Coordinates: 10 ° 39 ′  S , 76 ° 15 ′  W

The Pasco [ ˈpasko ] region (Spanish: Región Pasco , Quechua Pasqu suyu ) is an administrative region in the central Peruvian Andes . 304,200 people (2015) live in an area of ​​25,319 km². The capital is Cerro de Pasco , an important mining center in Peru. In the Pasco region (Oxapampa province) there are some settlements that can be traced back to the establishment of Austrian and German emigrants.

Provinces

The region is divided into three provinces and 28 districts.

province Capital
Daniel Alcides Carrión Yanahuanca
Oxapampa Oxapampa
Pasco Cerro de Pasco

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