Santa Anita District

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Santa Anita is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is part of city of Lima.

Location in the Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area

Officially established as a district on October 25, 1989 from parts of Ate and El Agustino separated by the Rio Surco, a ditch which went all the way to Santiago de Surco. The current mayor (alcalde) of Santa Anita is Tadeo Anastacio Guardia Huamani. The district's postal code is 43. The core sections of Santa Anita are: Santa Anita proper, originally a section of Ate; and Los Ficus and Universal, originally sections of El Agustino. Industrial areas to the east of Santa Anita and Universal mark the boundary with Ate.

[edit] Geography

The district has a total land area of 10.69 km². Its administrative center is located 195 meters above sea level.

[edit] Boundaries

North: El Agustino and Ate
East: Ate
South: El Agustino and Ate
West: El Agustino

[edit] Demographics

According to a 2002 estimate by the INEI, the district has 154,359 inhabitants and a population density of 14,439.6 persons/km². In 1999, there were 27,908 households in the district.

This Peruvian geography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

	Districts of the Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area
Lima		Ancón \| Ate \| Barranco \| Breña \| Carabayllo \| Chaclacayo \| Chorrillos \| Cieneguilla \| Comas \| El Agustino \| Independencia \| Jesús María \| La Molina \| La Victoria \| Lima \| Lince \| Los Olivos \| Lurigancho \| Lurín \| Magdalena del Mar \| Miraflores \| Pachacamac \| Pucusana \| Pueblo Libre \| Puente Piedra \| Punta Hermosa \| Punta Negra \| Rímac \| San Bartolo \| San Borja \| San Isidro \| San Juan de Lurigancho \| San Juan de Miraflores \| San Luis \| San Martín de Porres \| San Miguel \| Santa Anita \| Santa María del Mar \| Santa Rosa \| Santiago de Surco \| Surquillo \| Villa El Salvador \| Villa María del Triunfo
Callao		Bellavista \| Callao \| Carmen de la Legua Reynoso \| La Perla \| La Punta \| Ventanilla