The Barranca Province is one of the nine

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

in the

Lima Region The Department of Lima () is a department and region located in the central coast of Peru, the ''seat of the Regional Government'' is Huacho. Lima Province, which contains the city of Lima, the country's capital, is located west of the Departmen ...

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. It was created by Law No. 23939 on October 5, 1984 by the government of President

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. Geographically, the province has a flat terrain crossed by the valleys of the rivers Fortaleza, Pativilca and Supe.

Political division

The province measures and is divided into five

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s ( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are:

Districts

* Barranca ( Barranca) *

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(

) *

Pativilca Pativilca is a town in central Peru, capital of the district Pativilca in the province Barranca in the region Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is l ...

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) * Supe ( Supe) * Supe Puerto ( Supe Puerto)

References

* Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática.
Banco de Información Digital
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