Administrative divisions of Peru

The Republic of Peru is a structured into 24 departments decentralized unitary state according to its constitution. The departments are in 195 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular Provincia ) and these in turn in 1,828 districts (Spanish distritos, Sg Distrito) divided. The town of Callao has a special status as Provincia Constitucional heard, but just like the city to Lima Departamento Lima.

History

As in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, the Republic of Peru, was changed to the Spanish intendances Peru in 1821 in seven departments around. After this conversion, there were the following departments: Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cusco, Junín, La Libertad, Lima and Puno. This Departementos were in turn divided into 56 provinces and 439 districts.

In the decades that followed were more and more departments until in 1980 Ucayali was forming itself as the last ( twenty-fourth ) Departamento from the existing Loreto.

In 1988, 24 departments were combined into twelve regions by order of the government of Alan García Pérez. With this step, the somewhat hasty "regionalization" of Peru began. Under Alberto Fujimori, the centralism for its authoritarian government took advantage of the process of regionalization was stopped and 1992 divided the regions back into 24 departments. It was only under his successor, Alejandro Toledo Manrique found the process of decentralization a revival.

With the Organic Law de Regionalización of 16 November 2002, the self-government of the 24 departments and the " Provincia del Callao Constitucional " has been introduced. In November 2002, the first nationwide local elections were held. With the described Act of 2002 was aimed to merge several departments into larger regions. In the referendum of 30 October 2005, the merger plans by a large majority were prevented.

Summary Table

The population figures are based on the census of 2007.

Judiciary

The jurisdiction of Peru organized its activities by judicial districts ( distritos Judiciales ). In total there are 28 judicial districts throughout Peru. In contrast to the administrative division into departments, where it comes to the identity and historical roots in a given territory, you went to the division of the territory into judicial districts pragmatic ago. Thus, in planning especially the communication paths and the amount of processes that can create any dish efficiently incorporated.

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• In the history of Peru, the departments formed a large city, so also have many of the departments the names of their capital
• Even if the Departamentohauptstädte usually take for themselves to be the economic and cultural center of the region, there are notorious rivalries such as in the department of Ancash ( Huaraz and Chimbote ), in the department of Apurimac ( Andahuaylas and Abancay ), in the department of San Martin ( Tarapoto and moyobamba ), in the department of Moquegua ( Ilo and Moquegua ), in the department of Amazonas ( Chachapoyas and Bagua ) and in the department of Puno ( Juliaca and Puno ).