Sivia is a town in central Peru, capital of the
Sivia District in
Huanta Province
Huanta Province is the northernmost of the eleven provinces in the Ayacucho region in Peru. The capital of the Huanta province is the city of Huanta.
History
In the colonial era, Huanta province was larger than it is currently, with traditional ...
,
Ayacucho Region.
It is on the west bank of the
Apurímac River
The Apurímac River ( que, Apurimaq mayu; es, Río Apurímac, ; from Quechua ''apu'' 'divinity' and ''rimaq'' 'oracle, talker') rises from glacial meltwater of the ridge of the Mismi, a mountain in the Arequipa Province in the south-western ...
, about from the town of
Pichari, capital of the
Pichari District,
La Convención Province
La Convención Province is the largest of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru.
As part of the higher-altitude Amazon basin at the foot of the Andes, La Convención is one of three Peruvian provinces that promin ...
,
Cusco Region, on the other side of the river.
Both towns are in the zone known as the Valley of the Apurímac and Ene River (''
Valle de los Ríos Apurímac y Ene'', or VRAE). The VRAE is an area of such high childhood malnutrition and poverty that the government of Peru selected the VRAE to launch its
National Strategy for Growth program in 2007.
The VRAE is a major center of
coca
Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine.
The plant is grown as a cash crop in the Argentine Northwest, Bolivia, ...
production.
References
Populated places in the Ayacucho Region
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