Marcona District

Marcona
District
Coat of arms
Country	Peru
Region	Ica
Province	Nazca
Founded	May 10, 1955
Capital	San Juan
Government
• Mayor	Joel Roberto Rosales Pacheco
Area
• Total	1,955.36 km2 (754.97 sq mi)
Elevation	65 m (213 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	11,570
• Density	5.9/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	110304
Website	munimarcona.gob.pe

Marcona District is one of five districts of the province Nazca in Peru. ^[1] The district capital is San Juan de Marcona a port on the Pacific coast.

Marcona Mine

The major industry in the Marcona District is the Marcona Mine, an open-pit iron mine. The mine was acquired in 1992 by Shougang Corporation a state owned Chinese corporation which does business locally as Shougang Hierro Peru. ^{[2] [3]}

Economy and history

In addition to mining, there is trade and commercial fishing.

In 1870, the Italian-born Peruvian geographer Antonio Raimnondi found the iron ore reserves. The first explorations of the zone in terms of ores and minerals were started in 1915.

Marcona District is the only area in Peru that mines iron ore and produces iron. The capital of the district San Juan de Marcona is located in Ica Region, Nazca Province. The exploitations of iron ore begun in 1953 in the bay of San Juan, in parts by the United States company Marcona Mining Company. ^[4]

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. "Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru" article by Simon Romero in The New York Times August 14, 2010, accessed August 14, 2010
3. "Info portal at InfoMine.Com". Archived from the original on December 13, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
4. "Recent History of Marcona (In Spanish)". MuniMarcona.Gob.PE.

External links

• Municipal web site (in Spanish)

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