Santa Province

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Santa[1]

Location of Santa[1] in the Ancash region
Country Flag of Peru Peru
Region Ancash
Founded February 12, 1821
Capital Chimbote
Area
Area
Elevation (capital)		 4,004.99 km2
Population (as of the 2005 Census)
Population
 - Total
 - Density
406,605
100.78/km² 
Mayor GUZMAN AGUIRRE ALTAMIRANO (2007)
Subdivisions 9 districts
Official website
www.munisanta.gob.pe

The Santa Province is one of 20 provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru.

The city and port of Santa are located in the large, fertile valleys of the Santa and Lacramarca rivers. These valleys have extensive sown plains with cotton, rice, sugar and nutritional products. The city of Santa is the first colonial city of the Ancash coast.

This rich valley is formed by the outlet of the Santa River. The Santa River is born in the Conococha lagoon in the Cordillera Blanca (White mountain range). It crosses the Callejón de Huaylas ("Alley of Huaylas") in all its extension. It also cut the Cordillera Negra (Black mountain range) in the imposing Cañón del Pato (Mountain trail of the Duck) and it ends at the plains of Santa, after a distance traveled of 336 km.

The province of Santa was created on February 12, 1821. Its capital, Chimbote, that long time ago became the first fishing port of the world, is the most important city of the coastal zone of Ancash.

In 1992 it was the site of a famous massacre of campesinos.

[edit] Political division

Santa is divided into nine districts, which are[2]:

DISTRICT MAYOR
Caceres del Peru Lorenzo Mercedes Navarrete Leon
Chimbote Guzman Aguirre Altamirano
Coishco Hermes Walter Ascate Zamudio
Macate Luis Contreras Gonzales
Moro Tomas Villegas Roca
Nepeña Luis Falconeri Montalvo Rodriguez
Nuevo Chimbote Valentin Rolando Fernandez Bazan
Samanco Carlos Enrique Melendez Bismarck
Santa Eugenio Jara Acosta

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Spanish) Official web site of the Santa Province
  2. ^ (Spanish) Official web site of INEI

[edit] External links

(Spanish) Official web site of the Santa Province

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