Cusco, also spelled Cuzco, is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno on the east; Arequipa on the south; and Apurímac, Ayacucho and Junín on the west. Its capital is Cusco, the historical capital of the Inca Empire.
San Martín is a department and region in northern Peru. Most of the department is located in the upper part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. Its capital is Moyobamba and the largest city in the department is Tarapoto.
Ucayali is an inland department and region of Peru. Located in the Amazon rainforest, its name is derived from the Ucayali River. Its capital is the city of Pucallpa. It is the second largest department in Peru, after Loreto, and it is slightly larger than South Korea.
Pucallpa is a city in eastern Peru located on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. It is the capital of the Ucayali region, the Coronel Portillo Province and the Calleria District. This city is categorized as the only metropolis in Ucayali, being the largest populated center of the region. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, it is the tenth most populated city in Peru and second largest in the Peruvian Amazon after Iquitos. In 2013 it housed a population of 211,611 inhabitants.
The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal ritual and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people.
FAP Captain David Abensur Rengifo International Airport is an airport serving the city of Pucallpa in the Ucayali Region of Peru. It is operated by Aeropuertos del Perú, S.A. Captain Rengifo Airport is the main airport serving the Ucayali Region.
Roger Najar Kokally is a Peruvian politician and a former Congressman representing Ucayali in the 2006–2011 term.
According to the Organic Law of Regional Governments, the regions are, with the departments, the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru. Since its 1821 independence, Peru had been divided into departments but faced the problem of increasing centralization of political and economic power in its capital, Lima.
La Loretana is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa.
Deportivo Bancos is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa, Peru.
Tecnológico is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa, Peru.
San Martín de Porres is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru.
Hospital is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa, Ucayali.
Universidad Nacional de Ucayali is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru.
Deportivo Pucallpa is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru.
The Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa is a Latin Church Apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in Peru. It is immediately exempt to the Holy See and not part of any ecclesiastical province.
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral is the most important Catholic church in the Department of Ucayali in Peru. The cathedral was inaugurated on December 8, 2005. Located next to the provincial municipality and the Plaza de Armas, it is the local tourism center. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the first building dates back to the 1950s. It was built by the Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa under the command of Bishop Juan Luis Martín Bisson, with the support of the donations and work of thousands of citizens interested in its success. The first demonstration of the TANS Perú plane crash of was held at the church a week after its inauguration.
Glider Agustín Ushñahua Huasanga was a Peruvian Fujimorist politician who served as a Congressman, representing the Department of Ucayali between 2016 and 2019.
Ucayalina de Televisión is a Peruvian free-to-air television channel based in the city of Pucallpa, in the Department of Ucayali, with regular transmissions since 2004. Since 2008 it has provided material from the news channel Enlace Nacional.
The Shipibo-Conibo indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya is located in Nueva Requena District within the Ucayali region of Peru. In 1975, the Peruvian state formally recognized Santa Clara de Uchunya as a native community. The government then granted collective title to 218 hectares of the community's original territory, covering approximately 86,713 hectares. This title recognized the community's ownership of the portion of their territory where most of the community's permanent houses and crops were located. The community applied for extensions of the land title for its ancestral territory, but the Regional Agrarian Directorate of Ucayali did not process the request until 2015.
