Comas

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Comas is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Located in the Cono Norte area of the city of Lima, it is one of the most populous districts in the country.

The current mayor of Comas is Miguel Ángel Saldaña Reátegui. The district's postal code is 7.

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Boundaries 2 Demographics 3 History 4 Poverty 5 Transport and communications 6 Today 7 Other facts 8 External links

[edit] Geography

The district has a total land area of 48.75 km². Its administrative center is located 140 meters above sea level.

[edit] Boundaries

• North: Carabayllo
• East: San Juan de Lurigancho
• South: Independencia
• West: Puente Piedra and Los Olivos

[edit] Demographics

According to a 2002 estimate by the INEI, the district has 496,100 inhabitants and a population density of 10,176.4 persons/km². In 1999, there were 85,845 households in the district. It is the 17th most populated district in Lima.

[edit] History

During its first years of existence, Comas was a pueblo joven that started as a result of the many organized invasions led by immigrants from the highlands during the 1970s. Most of these peasants arrived from the regions of Junín and Huacanvelica in the central sierra of Peru.

[edit] Poverty

Comas is among the poorest districts in Lima, with a large amount of its population living under very precarious conditions.

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham visited the district's Lomas de Carabayllo neighborhood to live with impoverished children and show how money raised by the Sports Relief charity is being spent, appearing on a BBC One documentary. [1]

[edit] Transport and communications

The main roads serving the district are Avenida Túpac Amaru, Avenida Universitaria and the Chillón-Trapiche Highway.

[edit] Today

Comas has grown at an extremely fast pace in the last decade developing ecconomically, infastructurally, and socially. It boasts a huge middle-class. It has grown immensely from being a pueblo joven in its not so distant past. Despite this, there are still patches of poverty displayed by pueblos jovenes overshadowed by urbanization, parks, and commerce.

[edit] Other facts

The only civil aviation school in Peru is located in Comas, in the Aeroclub de Collique.

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) Municipalidad Distrital de Comas - Comas District Council official website
• (Spanish) ComasWeb - Comas District Portal