Peru Data

Huanuco
Area or surface: 37,722 km2.
Main resources: Coffee, Tea, Cane of Sugar and Petroleum.
Population: It has a population of 709,000 inhabitants. Their capital, Huánuco, has 74,676 inhabitants.
Number of counties and districts: 9 counties and 75 districts.
Date of Foundation: As department, January 24 1,869.
Eat Typical: Buried duck, hen locro, spicy of cheese, tacacho and chifles.
Fauna: Cockerel of the Rocks, guacharo, parrots, swallows, picaflores and bird relojero.Peces like trouts, bagres and paiches.
Batrachians and reptiles (boas and lizards)
Mammals like the sachavaca, the red deer and the sajino.
Flora: Arboreal species, palms and bushes. Orchids

Ica
Area or surface: 21,328 km2.
Main resources: Cotton, vine, Olive tree, pallares and frejoles.
Population: 600,000 inhabitants. Their capital, Ica, has 106,381 inhabitants.
Number of Counties and districts: 5 counties and 43 districts.
Date of Foundation: As department, January 30 1,866.
Eat Typical: Carapulcra, suck of pallares, turtle soup, strained frejol, you tile.
Ethnic groups: Negroid (District of The Carmen, Chincha)
Fauna: Marine wolves, birds guaneras, condors, flamingos

Junin
Area or surface: 43,384 km2.
Population: 106,381 inhabitants. Their capital, Huancayo.
Number of Counties and districts: 9 counties and 123 districts..
Date of Foundation: april 25 1,534.
Eat Typical: Pachamanca.

La Libertad
Area or surface: 24,795 km2.
Main resources: It is the first producer of cane of sugar and second in production of rice of the Peru.
Population: 1’333,000 inhabitants. Their capital, Trujillo, has 247,028 inhabitants.
Number of counties and districts: 12 counties and 80 districts.
Date of Foundation: As department, February 12 1,821.
Eat Typical: It causes in Limpet, Cured meat.
Fauna: Wild ducks, coastal birds and fish.
Flora: Medicinal grasses as matico, limoncillo, sage. Eucalyptus trees

Lambayeque
Area or surface:  14,231 km2.
Main resources: Rice, cane of sugar and fruit-bearing.
Population: 992,000 inhabitants. Their capital, Chiclayo, has 239,887 inhabitants.
Number of counties and districts: 3 counties and 33 districts.
Date of Foundation: As department, December 01 1874
Typical plates: Rice with Duck, Thickened, Chirimpico, Humitas, Dry of Kid to the Chiclayana.
Fauna: Pava aliblanca.
Flora: Forests of Locust

Lima
Area or surface: 34,802 km2.
Prinipales Resources: Cotton, corn, cane of sugar, fruit-bearing. it is the first industrial center of the country.
Population: 6’732, 000 inhabitants. Their capital, Lima, has 340,422 inhabitants.
Number of counties and districts: 10 counties and 171 districts.
Date of Foundation: As department, August 4 1,821.
Eat Typical: Limean Carapulcra, Cau-Cau, Anticuchos, Rice with Shells. Sweet as the Lived Mazamorra and the Rice with Milk.

Loreto
Area or surface: 368,852 km2.
Main resources: Rice, yucca, wood, fruit-bearing, rubber and won zebu.
Population: 775,000 inhabitants. Their capital, Iquitos, has 261,648 inhabitants.
Number of counties and districts: 6 counties and 47 districts.
Foundation date: As department, February 7 1,866.
Ethnic groups: Shipibos, piros, campas, yaguas, cashivos, orejones and jíbaros.
Eat Typical: Juanes of rice with hen, inchic hapi (peanut mazamorra).
Fauna: Lizards, Otorongos, Snakes (Yacumama), Sajinos, Deer, Ronsocos, Monkeys (maquisapa, machín, pichicos), I Dare anthill, turtles (motelo, matamata, charapa), Parrots, fish like the paiche and the zúngaro.
Flora: Regal victories, flowers, aguaje, palms

Madre de Dios
Area or surface: 85,183 km2.
Main resources: rice, yucca, coconut, rubber, wood. In mining it highlights the pro-ducción of gold.
Population: 76,000 inhabitants. Their capital, Port Maldonado, has 46,732 inhabitants.
Number of counties and districts: 3 counties and 10 districts.
Date of Foundation: As department, December 26 1,912.
Ethnic groups: Machiguengas, mashcos, campas.
Typical plates: Pataraschca, motelo soup, timbuche, masato, tacacho.
Fauna: Reptiles (constrictor Boa, Shushupe, Naka Naka). Lizards (Lizard Blanco and Black Lizard).
Ave (blued Partridge, sharara, cushuri, wading, camungo, parrots, macaws). Monkeys (Puffin, pichicos). Felines (Jaguar, tigrillo, puma). Fish (Zúngaro and paiche).
Flora: Arboreal species as the cedar and the mahogany