Pozuzo | |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | District |
Mapsize: | frameless |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Pasco |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Oxapampa |
Parts Type: | Subdivisions |
Parts Style: | para |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | November 29, 1918 |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Seat: | Pozuzo |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Nilton Ballesteros Crisanto |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Total Km2: | 1394.4 |
Elevation M: | 731 |
Population Total: | 4511 |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | PET |
Utc Offset1: | -5 |
Blank Name Sec1: | UBIGEO |
Blank Info Sec1: | 190305 |
Pozuzo District is one of eight districts of the Oxapampa Province in the Pasco Department of Peru.[1] The two towns in the district are the capital, Pozuzo, population 1,366 in 2017, and Prusia, which is smaller.
Pozuzo District is best known for the colonists from Austria and Germany who established one of the first European settlements (in Peru) east of the Andes in remote Pozuzo District in 1859. Traces of German culture remain in the architecture and culture of the district.[2]