Florida District, Peru

Florida is one of the twelve districts of the Bongará Province in the Amazonas Region of Peru.[1] Its seat is Pomacochas, also named Florida. It is located approximately 90 km from Bagua Grande, at the route of the Peruvian forest for the marginal highway of the forest, today called Fernando Belaunde Terry.

Florida
District
RegionAmazonas
ProvinceBongará
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)

The borders of the district are:

The access to the capital of the district is by asphalted highway of the Forest Fernando Belaunde Terry. It is an intermediate step of Chachapoyas to Lima.

The highway of the (Pan-American) coast (Fernando Belaunde Terry) joins to that of the forest doing a whole of 1,525 km, which is asphalted for its entire length.

In accordance with the census conducted in the district in the year 2003, it has a population of 5,117 inhabitants, 2,839 or (56%) belong to rural population and 2,275 inhabitants or (44%) are urban population.

Lake Pomacochas is situated within the district.

References
  1. "Provincias y Distritos". Gobierno Regional de Amazonas (in Spanish). n.d. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2014.

5°50′S 77°55′W


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