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Regions o Peru

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The regions (Spaingie: regiones) o Peru are the first-level admeenistrative subdiveesions o Peru. Syne its 1821 unthirldom, Peru haed been dividit intae depairtments (Spaingie: departamentos) but facit the problem o an increasin centralization o poleetical an economic pouer in its caipital, Lima. Efter several unsuccessful decentralization attempts, the legal figur o region became offeecial an regional govrenments wur electit tae manage the depairtments on 20 November 2002 till thair planned fusion intae real regions.

Unner the new arrangement, the umwhile 24 depairtments plus the Callao Province haes acome regional circumscriptions. The province o Lima haes been excludit frae this process an daes no form pairt o ony region. Unlik the earlier depairtments, regions hae an electit govrenment an hae a wide array o responsibilities athin thair jurisdiction. Unner the 2002 Organic Law o Regional Govrenments (Spaingie: Ley Orgánica de Gobiernos Regionales), thare is an ongoin process o transfer o functions frae the central govrenment tae the regions. A 2005 referendum for the merger o several depairtments failed tae get the necessary electoral support.

Peruvian regions an depairtments are subdividit in provinces an diestricts.

Regions

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Aurie an population information on the follaein leet haes been retrievit frae offeecial data bi the Peruvian Naitional Institute o Statistics an Informatics (Spaingie: Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, INEI).[1] Auries are roondit tae the nearest whole unit. Demographic data is based on the 2005 Census carriet oot frae 18 Julie throu 20 August 2005. Population densitie is gien tae ane decimal place in persons per square kilometer. UBIGEO nummers are codes uised bi INEI tae identifee naitional admeenistrative subdiveesions.

Depairtment ISO
UBIGEO
Caipital Aurie
(km²)
Population Population
density (/km²)
Location
Amazonas PE-AMA 01 Chachapoyas 39,249 389,700 9.9
Ancash PE-ANC 02 Huaraz 35,914 1,039,415 28.9
Apurímac PE-APU 03 Abancay 20,896 418,882 20.0
Arequipa PE-ARE 04 Arequipa 63,345 1,140,810 18.0
Ayacucho PE-AYA 05 Ayacucho 43,815 619,338 14.1
Cajamarca PE-CAJ 06 Cajamarca 33,318 1,359,023 40.8
Callao PE-CAL 07 Callao (Bellavista District) 147 810,568 5,514.8
Cuzco PE-CUS 08 Cuzco 71,986 1,171,503 16.3
Huancavelica PE-HUV 09 Huancavelica 22,131 447,054 20.2
Huánuco PE-HUC 10 Huánuco 36,849 730,871 19.8
Ica PE-ICA 11 Ica 21,328 665,592 31.2
Junín PE-JUN 12 Huancayo 37,667 1,091,619 29.0
La Libertad PE-LAL 13 Trujillo 25,500 1,539,774 60.4
Lambayeque PE-LAM 14 Chiclayo 14,231 1,091,535 76.7
Lima PE-LIM 15 Huacho 34,802 864,853 223.2
Loreto PE-LOR 16 Iquitos 368,852 884,144 2.4
Madre de Dios PE-MDD 17 Puerto Maldonado 85,301 92,024 1.1
Moquegua PE-MOQ 18 Moquegua 15,734 159,306 10.1
Pasco PE-PAS 19 Cerro de Pasco 25,320 266,764 10.5
Piura PE-PIU 20 Piura 35,892 1,630,772 45.4
Puno PE-PUN 21 Puno 66,997 1,245,508 18.6
San Martín PE-SAM 22 Moyobamba 51,253 669,973 13.1
Tacna PE-TAC 23 Tacna 16,076 274,496 17.1
Tumbes PE-TUM 24 Tumbes 4,046 191,713 47.4
Ucayali PE-UCA 25 Pucallpa 101,831 402,445 4.0
  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on November 30, 2007.

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