Sauce District
Sauce Sawsi | |
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![]() Sawsiqucha | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | San Martín |
Province | San Martín |
Founded | May 20, 1936 |
Capital | |
Government | |
• Mayor | Sebastian Calderon Bacon |
Area | |
• Total | 103 km2 (40 sq mi) |
Elevation | 600 m (2,000 ft) |
Population (2005 census) | |
• Total | 5,350 |
• Density | 52/km2 (130/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
UBIGEO | 220913 |
Sauce (hispanicized spelling of Quechua sawsi willow)[1] is one of fourteen districts of the province San Martín in Peru.[2]
Geography[]
Located in the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental (Peru), the town is 614 m a.s.l. and 51 km south of the Tarapoto city, across the Huallaga River, 6°42’12” south latitude and 76°15’15” west longitude.
Places of interest[]
- Sawsiqucha
References[]
- ^ Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua (PDF). Gobierno Regional del Cusco, Perú: Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua. 2005 https://indigenasdelperu.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/diccionario-qeswa-academia-mayor-cuzco.pdf.
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(help) - ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
Categories:
- Districts of the San Martín Region
- Districts of the San Martín Province
- San Martín Region geography stubs