Sivia is a town in central Peru, capital of the

Sivia District Sivia District is located in the Huanta Province in the Ayacucho Region of Peru. The district was created by "legislative decree" 25845 on November 6, 1992. Its capital, Sivia, is located at an altitude of 551 m. The district had a population of 11 ...

Huanta Province Huanta Province is the northernmost of the eleven provinces in the Ayacucho region in Peru. The capital of the Huanta province is the city of Huanta. History In the colonial era, Huanta province was larger than it is currently, with traditional ...

Ayacucho Region Ayacucho () is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path known as ...

. It is on the west bank of the

Apurímac River The Apurímac River ( que, Apurimaq mayu; es, Río Apurímac, ; from Quechua ''apu'' 'divinity' and ''rimaq'' 'oracle, talker') rises from glacial meltwater of the ridge of the Mismi, a mountain in the Arequipa Province in the south-western mo ...

, about from the town of

Pichari Pichari is a town in central Peru, capital of the Pichari District, La Convención Province, Cusco Region. It is located on the east side of the Apurímac River, only about 3 km from the town of Sivia, capital of the Sivia District in Huanta Pro ...

, capital of the

Pichari District Pichari District is one of ten districts of the province La Convención in Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , o ...

La Convención Province La Convención Province is the largest of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. As part of the higher-altitude Amazon basin at the foot of the Andes, La Convención is one of three Peruvian provinces that promin ...

Cusco Region Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de ...

, on the other side of the river. Both towns are in the zone known as the Valley of the Apurímac and Ene River (''

Valle de los Ríos Apurímac y Ene Valle may refer to: * Valle (surname) Geography *"Valle", the cultural and climatic zone of the dry subtropical Interandean Valles of the Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina *University of Valle, a public university in Cali, Colombia ...

'', or VRAE). The VRAE is an area of such high childhood malnutrition and poverty that the government of Peru selected the VRAE to launch its National Strategy for Growth program in 2007. The VRAE is a major center of

coca Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine. The plant is grown as a cash crop in the Argentine Northwest, Bolivia, ...

production.

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Populated places in the Ayacucho Region {{Ayacucho-geo-stub