Urarinas District

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Urarinas
District
Urarinas District
Interactive map of Urarinas
Country Flag of Peru.svg Peru
Region Loreto
Province Loreto
FoundedJuly 2, 1943
Capital Concordia
Area
 • Total
15,778.4 km2 (6,092.1 sq mi)
Elevation
112 m (367 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
12,025
 • Density0.76212/km2 (1.9739/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 160305

Urarinas District is one of five districts of the province Loreto in Peru. [1] In addition to Jivaroan-speaking peoples, a major indigenous Amazonian group residing in this District is the Urarina people. [2]

References

  1. ↑ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
  2. ↑ Dean, Bartholomew. 2009. Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine . Gainesville: University Press of Florida ISBN   978-0-8130-3378-5

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