Tierra Blanca, Ucayali Explained

Official Name:Tierra Blanca
Pushpin Map:Peru
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Peru
Pushpin Label Position:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Peru
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Loreto
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Ucayali
Coordinates:-6.5555°N -75.1773°W
Elevation M:128
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Timezone:PET
Utc Offset:-5
Population:1503
Population As Of:2007
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Af

Tierra Blanca is a municipality in the Sarayacu District of Peru. It is located in the Ucayali Province of the Loreto Region. Its postcode (ZIP) is 16440.

Its mayor in 2014 was Jorge Díaz Ruíz.[2] Its population in 2017 was 1,602 people, 830 men and 772 women, living in 356 houses or flats (viviendas).[3]

In 2017/18 a group of very conservative Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites from Belize with 45 families, all together about 300 people, started a new colony near Tierra Blanca. These Mennonites are very conservative ethnic Mennonites with a Dutch-German background who belong to the Old Colony Mennonites of the so-called Russian Mennonites.[4]

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  1. https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1541/tomo4.pdf Directorio Nacional de Centros Poblados, Censos Nacionales 2017:vXII de Población, VII de Vivienda y III de Comunidades Indígenas, volume 4, page 1414.
  2. http://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/540765C290259FE805257D27005B68A8/$FILE/Directorio_Nacional_parte_2.pdf Directorio Nacional de Municipalidades Provinciales, Distritales y de Centros Poblados 2014.
  3. https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1541/tomo4.pdf Directorio Nacional de Centros Poblados, Censos Nacionales 2017:vXII de Población, VII de Vivienda y III de Comunidades Indígenas, volume 4, page 1414.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESCSVUj2Rk8 Enquête exclusive - Mennonites : immersion dans la communauté la plus mystérieuse de la planète HD