San Martín region

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San Martín region
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Basic data
Country Peru
Capital Moyobamba
surface 51,253.3 km²
Residents 840,800 (2015)
density 16 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 PE-SAM
Website www.regionsanmartin.gob.pe (Spanish)
politics
Gobernador regional Pedro Bogarín Vargas (2019-2022)
Provinces of the San Martín region
Provinces of the San Martín region

Coordinates: 6 ° 8 ′  S , 76 ° 48 ′  W

The region of San Martín [ sanmaɾˈtin ] (Spanish Región San Martín , Quechua San Martín suyu ) is a region in the Andes in northern Peru . The region borders the Loreto and Amazonas regions to the north, Huánuco to the south and La Libertad to the west .

Population, area

According to an estimate from 2015, around 840,800 people live in an area of ​​51,253.31 km².

geography

Rivers

Río Huallaga and its main tributaries: Río Mayo , Río Saposoa and Río Tocache .

Passports

Dos Cruces (at 4350  m ) in the province of Mariscal Cáceres ; Ventanas (at 4200  m ) in the province of Pataz and Tahgarana (at 1500  m ) in the province of Lamas .

Pongos

Caynarachi (at 350  m ) in Lamas; De Aguirre (at 500  m ) and Huamanhuasi in San Martín.

Lakes

El Sauce (also called Laguna Azul , "blue lake").

Airports

Tarapoto, Rioja, Uchiza, Juanjuí , Tocache, Moyobamba and Saposoa.

Capital

The capital is Moyobamba . The region was named after the liberator José de San Martín . The economic center of San Martín is the city of Tarapoto .

tourism

In the province of Mariscal Cáceres in the west of the San Martín region lies the Río Abiseo National Park , which UNESCO declared a world cultural and natural heritage site in 1990 . The national park has a diverse and species-rich fauna and flora, including some species that are threatened with extinction. The national park is also home to 36 pre-Columbian sites, the largest and archaeologically most important is Gran Pajatén . The site, rediscovered in the early 1960s, was settled around 200 AD and is attributed to the Chachapoya culture; However, there are also finds from other cultures in the park that date back to 1500 BC. To date.

Administrative structure

The region is divided into ten provinces and 77 districts.

province Capital
Bellavista Bellavista
El Dorado San Jose de Sisa
Huallaga Saposoa
Llamas Llamas
Mariscal Cáceres Juanjuí
Moyobamba Moyobamba
Picota Picota
Rioja Rioja
San Martín Tarapoto
Tocache Tocache

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