Puña, also known as San Luis de Puña, is a

Peruvian Peruvians (''/peruanas'') are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 ...

town in the Tacabamba District of the Chota Province, located in the center of the Cajamarca Department. The town is the birthplace of former

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Geography

The rural town of Puña is located about six hours by automobile from the area's largest city,

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. The town comprises scattered adobe homes constructed on hillside terrain and narrow dirt roads tracing along the edges of dangerous cliffs.

Demographics

Despite being located in a department that holds a large portion of Peru's mineral wealth, seventy percent of the population of Puña live in

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, with the majority of households earning less than US$100 monthly in 2021. Much of the population is aged; younger generations left the town in order to live in more populated urban centers.

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