Chazuta District is one of fourteen districts of the province San Martín in Peru.[2] San Martín Province is located in north central Peru, in San Martín Region, a highland area on the edge of the Amazon Basin. Immediately to the east of San Martín Region is the large lowland region of Loreto, in the northeast corner of Peru. The area is home to members of the Kichwa-Lamista ethnicity, who migrated to the area from province of Lamas between 1850 and 1920.[3]
Chazuta District | |
|---|---|
  Chazuta District Location of Chazuta in the San Martín province | |
| Coordinates: 6°34′25″S 76°07′57″W / 6.5736°S 76.1324°W[1] | |
| Country | Peru |
| Region | San Martín |
| Province | San Martín |
| Founded | January 2, 1857 |
| Capital | Chazuta |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Isaac Tangoa Panaifo |
| Area | |
| • Total | 966.38 km2 (373.12 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 150 m (490 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 9,563 |
| • Density | 9.9/km2 (26/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
| UBIGEO | 220904 |
Climate
edit| Climate data for Chazuta, elevation 203 m (666 ft), (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 33.0 (91.4) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.4 (90.3) |
32.5 (90.5) |
32.4 (90.3) |
33.1 (91.6) |
34.0 (93.2) |
34.8 (94.6) |
34.1 (93.4) |
33.6 (92.5) |
33.2 (91.8) |
33.2 (91.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.6 (72.7) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.3 (72.1) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.4 (68.7) |
20.7 (69.3) |
21.5 (70.7) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.5 (72.5) |
21.9 (71.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 143.2 (5.64) |
175.6 (6.91) |
189.3 (7.45) |
141.8 (5.58) |
101.0 (3.98) |
74.4 (2.93) |
69.5 (2.74) |
59.9 (2.36) |
95.6 (3.76) |
137.8 (5.43) |
152.0 (5.98) |
152.9 (6.02) |
1,493 (58.78) |
| Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru[4] | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
- ^ Chaparro, Anahí (2021). "Los Kichwa de San Martín: impactos de las dinámicas territoriales en las cuencas de los ríos Mayo y Huallaga". In Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego Dirección General de Saneamiento de la Propiedad Agraria y Catastro Rural (ed.). TERRITORIOS Y RECURSOS NATURALES DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS EN LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA (PDF). Lima: Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego Dirección General de Saneamiento de la Propiedad Agraria y Catastro Rural. pp. 107–120. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Normales Climáticas Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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