Pasco () is a department and

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and ...

in central

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. 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 both the Pasco Province and the Department of Pasco, and an important mining center of silver, copper, zinc and lead. At an elevation of ...

Political division

The region is divided into 3 provinces (, 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 Province, Daniel Alcídes Carrión in the region Pasco Region, Pasco. Etymology The name of the town, is a phrase composed by the Quechua languages, Quechua ad ...

) *

Oxapampa Oxapampa is the capital of Oxapampa District and Oxapampa Province in Peru in the eastern part of the Pasco Region. Oxapampa belongs to the natural region known as Selva Alta or high jungle. northward down the valley of the Huancabamba River is ...

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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 () 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 protects the headwaters of the Pac ...

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 peopl ...

San Matías–San Carlos Protection Forest The San Matías–San Carlos Protection Forest (Bosque de Protección San Matías-San Carlos) is a national forest situated in Pasco Region, Peru. It is a forest set aside to preserve the soils and to protect infrastructure, towns, and agricult ...

Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park () is a protected area located in the region of Pasco Region, Pasco, Peru. It preserves part of the rainforests and cloud forests of central Peru. It is a refuge for wildlife from the Pleistocene, a time when t ...

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 pr ...

External links

Gobierno Regional Pasco
– Pasco Regional Government official website Pasco Pasco {{Pasco-geo-stub