Camaná is the district capital of the
homonymous province, located in the
Department of Arequipa
Arequipa () is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated dep ...
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
. In 2015, it had an estimate of 39,026 inhabitants.
It lies 180 km from Arequipa, on the
Panamerican Highway, which can be traveled in three hours.
History
It is where the Spanish founded "Villa Hermosa" in 1539, moving into the valley of Arequipa in 1540. The city of Arequipa had his first crib in this rich and extensive valley of Camaná.
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Census results
Populated places in the Department of Arequipa
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