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Regions of Peru

Regions Amazonas - Ancash - Apurímac - Arequipa - Ayacucho - Cajamarca - Callao - Cusco - Huancavelica - Huánuco - Ica - Junín - La Libertad - Lambayeque - Lima - Lima Metropolitana - Loreto - Madre de Dios - Moquegua - Pasco - Piura - Puno - San Martín - Tacna - Tumbes - Ucayali -

Note: According to the Regionalization Law which was passed 18 Nov 2002, Peru is divided into 25 regions (regiones; singular: región) and Lima Province, located in the central coast of the country, which does not belong to any region.  The mayor of Lima is the president of Metropolitan Lima (Lima Metropolitana) Region.

Party abbreviations: AP = Avanza País (Go on Country); AT = Alianza por Tacna (Alliance for Tacna); ATF = Arequipa, Tradición y Futuro (Arequipa, Tradition and Future); CRD-C = Convergencia Regional Descentralista "Conredes"; CRD = Concertación en la Región por la Descentralización; FAR = Frente Amplio Regional; FD = Fuerza Democrática (Democratic Force); FIM = Frente Independiente Moralizador; FL = Fuerza Loretana (Loreto Force); FPL = Frente Popular "Llapanchik"; FS = Fuerza Social; IU = Integrando Ucayali; MARQA = Movimiento por la Autonomía Regional Quechua y Aymara (Quechua and Aymara Movement for Regional Autonomy); MCDRL = Movimiento Concertación para el Desarrollo Regional de Lima (Agreement for the Regional Development of Lima Movement); MHP = Partido Movimiento Humanista Peruano (Peruvian Humanist Movement Party); MICC = Movimiento Independiente "Chim Pum Callao"; MILH = Movimiento Independiente "Luchemos por Huánuco"; MINA = Movimiento Independiente "Nueva Amazonía"; MINCAP = Movimiento Independiente de Campesinos y Profesionales (Independent Movement of Farmers and Professionals); MINM = Movimiento Independiente Nuestro Ilo Moquegua (Independent Movement Our Ilo Moquegua); MIOSO = Movimiento Independiente Obras siempre Obras; MIRE = Movimiento de Innovación Regional (Movement of Regional Innovation); MNIz = Movimiento Nacional de Izquierda (National Left Movement); MNI = Movimiento Nueva Izquierda (New Left Movement); MRF = Movimiento Regional FAENA; MRICC = Movimiento Regional Independiente Cuenta Conmigo; NA = Nueva Amazonía (New Amazonia); PAP = Partido Aprista Peruano; PDSP = Partido Democrático Somos Perú; PICO = Proyecto Integracionista de Comunidades Organizadas; PP = Perú Posible (Possible Peru, A. Toldedo personalist); PRI = Partido Regional de Integración (Regional Integration Party); UJ = Unidos por Junín – Sierra y Selva; UN = Unidad Nacional (National Unity); UNIPOL = Unidos por Loreto (United for Loreto); UPP = Unión por el Perú (Union for Peru)

Amazonas

[Amazonas Region flag (Peru)]
                 Adopted 9 Oct 2003

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Miguel Catalino Reyes Contreras    (b. 1960)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Óscar Ramiro Altamirano Quispe     (b. 1962)            FD


Ancash

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 - 2004         Freddy Alberto Ghilardi Álvarez                         PAP
2004 -  1 Jan 2007         Eloy Ricardo Narváez Soto                               PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              César Joaquín Álvarez Aguilar      (b. 1967)            MRICC


Apurímac

[possible Apurimac Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 - 25 Sep 2004  Luis Beltrán Barra Pacheco                              UPP
25 Sep 2004 -  1 Jan 2007  Rosa Aurora Suárez Aliaga (f)                           UPP
 1 Jan 2007 -              David Abraham Salazar Morote       (b. 1960)            FPL


Arequipa

[Arequipa region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Daniel Ernesto Vera Ballón         (b. 1959)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Juan Manuel Guillén Benavides      (b. 1941)            ATF


Ayacucho

[possible Ayacucho Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Werner Omar Quezada Martínez       (b. 1969)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Isaac Ernesto Molina Chávez        (b. 1948)            MIRE


Cajamarca

[Flag of Cajamarca Province (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Luis Felipe Pita Gastelumendi                           PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Jesús Coronel Salirrosas           (b. 1953)            FS


Callao

[Callao Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Rogelio Antenor Canches Guzmán                          PP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Alexander Martín Kouri Bumachar    (b. 1964)            MICC


Cusco

[Flag of Cusco Region (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Carlos Ricardo Cuaresma Sánchez                         FIM
 1 Jan 2007 -              Hugo Eulogio Gonzales Sayán        (b. 1953)            UPP


Huancavelica

[Huancavelica Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Salvador Crisanto Espinoza Huaroc  (b. 1941)            MINCAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Luis Federico Salas Guevara        (b. 1950)            PICO
                             Schultz


Huánuco

[Huánuco Province, Peru flag]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Luzmila Templo Condeso (f)                              MILH
 1 Jan 2007 -              Jorge Espinoza Egoavil             (b. 1935)            FAR


Ica

[possible Ica Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Manuel Vicente Tello Céspedes      (b. 1950)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Rómulo Triveño Pinto               (b. 1947)            PRI


Junín

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Manuel Edwin Duarte Velarde        (b. 1941)            UJ
 1 Jan 2007 -              Vladimiro Huaroc Portocarrero      (b. 1948)            CRD-C



La Libertad

[La Libertad Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 7 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Homero Benjamín Burgos Oliveros    (b. 1966)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              José Murguía Zannier               (b. 1937)            PAP


Lambayeque

[Lambayeque Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 - 14 Oct 2008  Yehude Simon Munaro                (b. 1947)           UPP;2006 MHP
14 Oct 2008 -              Nery Enni Saldarriaga de Kroll (f) (b. 1943)             MHP
                             (acting to Apr 2009)


Lima 

[Lima Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Miguel Ángel Mufarech Nemi         (b. 1950)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Nelson Oswaldo Chui Mejía          (b. 1947)            MCDRL  


Lima Metropolitana

[Lima city flag (Peru)]

Mayor of Metropolitan Lima
 1 Jan 2003 -              Luis Castañeda Lossio              (b. 1945)            UN


Loreto

[Loreto Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Robinson Rivadeneira Reátegui                           UNIPOL
 1 Jan 2007 -              Ivan Enrique Vásquez Valera        (b. 1959)            FL


Madre de Dios

[Madre de Dios Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 - 13 Apr 2005  Rafael Edwin Ríos López                                 MNI
                             (suspended from 4 Feb 2005)
 4 Feb 2005 -  1 Jan 2007  José de la Rosa del Maestro Ríos                        MNI
                             (to 13 Apr 2005 acting for suspend López) 
 1 Jan 2007 -              Santos Kawai Komori                (b. 1940)            MIOSO


Moquegua

[Moquegua Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  María Cristala Constantinides                           PDSP
                             Rosado (f)                
 1 Jan 2007 -              Jaime Alberto Rodríguez Villanueva (b. 1951)            MINM


Pasco

[possible Pasco Region (Peru) flag to 2010]                  to 12 Feb 2010
[Pasco Region flag (Peru)]               Adopted 12 Feb 2010

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Víctor Raúl Espinoza Soto                               CRD
 1 Jan 2007 -              Félix Rivera Serrano               (b. 1945)            MNIz


Piura

[Piura Region flag (Peru)]

President of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -              César Trelles Lara                 (b. 1936)             PAP


Puno

[Puno Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  David Aníbal Jiménez Sardón        (b. 1953)            MARQA
 1 Jan 2007 -              Pablo Hernán Fuentes Guzmán        (b. 1960)            AP


San Martín

[possible San Martin Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 - 2004         Max Henry Ramírez García           (b. 1963)            PAP
2004 -  1 Jan 2007         Julio Cárdenas Sánchez                                  PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              César Villanueva Arévalo           (b. 1946)            NA


Tacna

[Flag of Tacna Region (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Julio Antonio Alva Centurión                            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Hugo Froilán Ordóñez Salazar       (b. 1945)            AT


Tumbes

[Ftg of Tumbes Region (Peru)]
                   Adopted 10 Apr 1995

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Rosa Iris Medina Feijóo (f)        (b. 1940)            PAP
 1 Jan 2007 -              Wilmer Florentino Dios Benites     (b. 1962)            MRF


Ucayali

[Ucayali Region flag (Peru)]

Presidents of the Region
 1 Jan 2003 -  1 Jan 2007  Edwin Vásquez López                                     MINA
 1 Jan 2007 -              Jorge Velásquez Portocarrero       (b. 1966)            IU






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