Providencia District

Infobox District Peru
district = Providencia




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region = Amazonas
province = Luya
capital = Providencia
elevation = 1750
hamlets =
ubigeo = 010515
pop = commas|1487
density = commas|20.9
area = commas|71.22
founded = June 18 1987
mayor = Angel Severo Salazar Puerta
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Providencia is a district of the province of Luya. Providence is located in a warm zone in a part that lowers from the heights up to the river cashew. Providence offers several attractive places for tourists like beautiful cataracts and several ruins of the culture chachapoya. To come to Providence it is travelled or in horse from the District of Ocalli, where it finishes the highway.

The management holidays of the cardinal Providence it is celebrated on July 16. As typical meals there is known the Purtumote, the Nickname, the Locro, the cuy with Bean, the Stew and the Yucca, between others. The District of Providence belongs to the parish of the District of Ocalli.

The big part of the District of Providence lives of the coffee and of the coca.

In the north the District of Providence has border with the District of Pisuquía, the District of Camporredondo and the District of Ocalli, in the East with the District of Ocumal, and in the south-west with the District of Choropampa. The principal entry to the District of Providence is for the District of Ocalli, where it finishes the highway.

External links

* [http://www.muniprovidencia.gob.pe/ Providencia district official website ]