Pasco () is a department and

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...

in central

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. Its capital is

Cerro de Pasco Cerro de Pasco is a city in central Peru, located at the top of the Andean mountains. It is the capital of the Pasco region, and an important mining center. At elevation, it is one of the highest cities in the world, and the highest or the s ...

Political division

The region is divided into 3 provinces ( es, provincias, singular: ), which are composed of 28 districts (''distritos'', singular: ''distrito''). Oxapampa peru

Provinces

The provinces, with their capitals in parentheses, are: * Daniel Alcídes Carrión (

Yanahuanca Yanahuanca is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Daniel Alcídes Carrión in the region Pasco. Etymology The name of the town, is a phrase composed by the Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic ...

) * Oxapampa ( Oxapampa) * Pasco (

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Places of interest

Cerro de la Sal The Cerro de la Sal or Cerro de Sal, (''Mountain of Salt'') is located in Villa Rica District of Oxapampa Province in Pasco Department, Peru. The Cerro de la Sal was an important source of salt for the pre-Columbian indigenous people of the A ...

El Sira Communal Reserve El Sira Communal Reserve ( es, Reserva Comunal El Sira) is a protected area in Peru created to preserve the biodiversity of the Sira Mountains and the ancestral sustainable use of the area's resources by the nearby native peoples. It also protect ...

Gran Pajonal The Gran Pajonal (Great Scrubland or Great Savanna) is an isolated interfluvial plateau in the Amazon Basin of Peru. It is located in the departments of Ucayali, Pasco and Junín. The plateau is inhabited by the Asháninka or Ashéninka people a ...

* San Matías–San Carlos Protection Forest * Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park *

Yanesha Communal Reserve The Communal Reservation Yanesha or Yanesha Community Reserve is a communal reserve in the Palcazu District of Oxapampa Province of Peru. It covers an area of in the Palcazu River basin. The reserve was creating by law on April 28, 1988, to pro ...

External links

Gobierno Regional Pasco
– Pasco Regional Government official website Regions of Peru {{Pasco-geo-stub