Omia District
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| Country |  Peru |
| Region | Amazonas |
| Province | Rodríguez de Mendoza |
| Founded | February 05, 1875 |
| Capital | Omia |
| Area | |
| Area Elevation |
175.13 km2 1,395 metres (4,577 ft) |
| Population (as of the 2005 Census) | |
| Population - Total - Density |
6,737 38.5/km² |
| Mayor | José Julian Del Aguila Fernandez |
| UBIGEO | 010609 |
| Official website | |
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Omia is a district of the province of Rodríguez de Mendoza, Peru. The whole people takes his name in virtue to something that is related to his existence, Omia, it seems that he acquired it based on the geographical point of view, since the taken informations of the forefathers and the argument supported by some of his you proclaim children; they affirm that one derives from the Latin voice “ OMNIA “ (everything).
One believes that one gave him this name of MINE, obeying the prodigabilidad of his soil, Since, the fertility of his vales, they do that his grounds shut up a big quantity of animal, vegetable and mineral products that give him the aspect of a leafy paradisiac flatness.
There are others who affirm that Omia, it stems from the "HOLLOW" word, basing his position on the fact that the same inhabited center, it has the configuration of one I dig holes and it is a picturesque plain surrounded with rocky and greyish hills that like a beautiful necklace of buttresses, spreads in all his outline, presented a beautiful scenery in which the bright sun of the mornings, allows to reflect clear and pale beams and the rainbow of the evenings, his stripes of polychrome and showy colour.
Although it is true that both possessions have a guessed right foundation; nevertheless most accepted even the actuality is the first one.
The foundation of the District of Omia, it goes back to the second half of the XIXth century, according to documentary sources regarding the origin of the first peoples of our Province, Omia, it was founded on February 5, 1875, on having disintegrated of the District of Huayabamba, together with Totora, Pink Saint and San Nicolás.
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