Puerto Inca | |
Settlement Type: | Province |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Peru |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Huánuco |
Established Title: | Founded |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Seat: | Puerto Inca |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Melanio Leonidas Nuñez Vera |
Area Total Km2: | 9913.94 |
Population Total: | 31748 |
Population Footnotes: | |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Blank Name Sec1: | UBIGEO |
Blank Info Sec1: | 1009 |
The Puerto Inca Province is the largest of eleven provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru.[1] The capital of this province is the city of Puerto Inca.
According to the 2007 census, Spanish was spoken by 89.5% of the population as their first language, while 5.5% spoke Quechua, 1.9% spoke Asháninka, 0.3% spoke Aymara, 2.6% spoke other indigenous languages and 0.0% spoke foreign languages.
In the early 20th century, a number of Japanese migrated to the area and established the Kudo and Taba settlements for rice and coffee cultivation.[2]
The province is divided into five districts: