| La Convención | |
| Settlement Type: | Province |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Cusco |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Seat: | Quillabamba |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Hernán De La Torre Dueñas (2019-2022) |
| Area Total Km2: | 30061.82 |
| Population Total: | 147148 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | UBIGEO |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 0809 |
La Convención Province is the largest of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru.
As part of the higher-altitude Amazon basin at the foot of the Andes, La Convención is one of three Peruvian provinces that prominently figure in national coffee production, the other being Chanchamayo province in Junín state and Jaén province in Cajamarca state.
The La Convención Province is bounded to the north by the Junín Region and the Ucayali Region, to the east by the Madre de Dios Region, to the south by the Anta Province, the Calca Province and the Urubamba Province, and to the west by the Ayacucho Region and the Apurímac Region.
La Convención province is approximately long from north to south. Within that distance, the land of La Convención reaches has a maximum elevation of at Salcantay,[1] on the border of La Convención, Anta, and Urubamba provinces, and a minimum elevation of in the Amazon Basin along the Ucayali River. Between the glaciers and tundra of Salcantay and other high mountains to the rain forests of the Amazon Basin the topography is extremely rugged and varied.[2]
The Urupampa and Willkapampa mountain ranges traverse the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are listed below:[3]
The province is divided into fourteen districts (Spanish; Castilian: distritos, singular: Spanish; Castilian: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde). The districts are:
| Districts of La Convención Province | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Capital | Area | Population (2017)[4] | elevation (of capital)[5] | coordinates[6] | Notes | |
| Echarate | 23,214 | -12.768°N -72.577°W | |||||
| Huyro | 4,773 | -13.007°N -72.554°W | |||||
| Amaybamba | 4,285 | -13.289°N -73.265°W | Created 2014 from Vilcabamba | ||||
| Kimbiri | 15,962 | -12.62°N -73.789°W | |||||
| Maranura | 4,134 | -12.964°N -72.664°W | |||||
| Camisea | 6,969 | -11.45°N -73.034°W | Created 2016 from Echarate | ||||
| Ocobamba | 4,327 | -12.871°N -72.447°W | |||||
| Pichari | 22,961 | -12.52°N -73.83°W | |||||
| Quellouno | 13,311 | -12.637°N 72.557°W | |||||
| Quillabamba | 27,999 | -12.868°N -72.692°W | |||||
| Santa Teresa | 5,972 | -13.12°N -72.594°W | |||||
| Lukma | 9,557 | -13.063°N -72.933°W | |||||
| Villa Kintiarina | 1,974 | -12.918°N -73.529°W | Created 2015 from Kimbiri | ||||
| Villa Virgen | 1,980 | -13.001°N -73.305°W | Created 2014 from Vilcabamba | ||||
| Total: La Convención | Quillabamba | 147,148 | |||||
The province is inhabited by indigenous citizens: Asháninka,[8] Machiguenga,[9] Yine[10] and Quechua. Spanish is the language which the majority of the population (51.98%) learnt to speak in childhood, 39.82% of the residents started speaking using the Quechua language (2007 Peru Census).[11]