Country Peru Website www.muniatalaya.gob.pe Founded 1 June 1982 Capital Atalaya | UBIGEO 2502 Area 38,924 km² Region Ucayali Region | |
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Atalaya is the largest of four provinces in the Ucayali Region, in the central Amazon rainforest of Peru.
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Map of Atalaya Province, Peru
Languages
According to the 2007 census, Spanish was spoken as a first language by 49.1% of the population, while 37.0% spoke Asháninka, 1.7% spoke Quechua, 0.2% spoke Aymara, 11.9% spoke other indigenous languages and 0.1% spoke foreign languages.
Political division
The province is divided into four districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are:
Places of interest
References
Atalaya Province Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA