Puerto Inca Province Explained

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:
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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.

Boundaries

Languages

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]

Political division

The province is divided into five districts:

Places of interest

Notes

Notes and References

  1. Nalvarte . W. . Sabogal . C. . Galvan . O. . Marmillod . D. . Angulo . W. . Cordova . N. . Colan . V. . 2004 . Silvicultura en la Amazonia Peruana: diagnostico de experiencias en la region ucanyali y la provincia de Puerto Inca . Spanish.
  2. Irie . Toraji . Himel . William . 1952 . History of Japanese Migration to Peru, Part III (Conclusion) . The Hispanic American Historical Review . 32 . 1 . 73–82 . 10.2307/2508910 . 0018-2168.
  3. Ermilov . S. G. . Friedrich . S. . 2017-06-01 . Oribatid mites of the superfamily Trizetoidea Ewing, 1917 (Acari, Oribatida) from Peru . Entomological Review . en . 97 . 3 . 372–382 . 10.1134/S0013873817030101 . 1555-6689.