Trujillo metropolitan area (Peru)

Trujillo Metropolitan Area

Coordinates: 8°6′43.2″S 79°1′43.68″W / 8.112000°S 79.0288000°W / -8.112000; -79.0288000Coordinates: 8°6′43.2″S 79°1′43.68″W / 8.112000°S 79.0288000°W / -8.112000; -79.0288000
Country  Peru
Region La Libertad
Province Trujillo Province
Largest city Trujillo City
District(s) 1.Trujillo
2.Víctor Larco
3.Moche
4.Huanchaco
5.La Esperanza
6.El Porvenir
7.Florencia de Mora
8.Laredo
9.Salaverry
Other Cities Víctor Larco
Moche City
Huanchaco
Salaverry
Laredo
Government
 • Mayor–council government Cesar Acuña Peralta (Alliance for Progress)
Area
 • Total 410 sq mi (1,100 km2)
Population (2007 Census)
 • Total 804.296 (year 2,007)
909.498 (year 2,015)
 • Density 2,169/sq mi (837/km2)
Demonym(s) Trujillano(a) (Spanish)
Time zone PET (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 044
Website http://www.munitrujillo.gob.pe/
Highest elevation 3937 ft/1,200 m (Campana Mountain, in Huanchaco District).
Lowest elevation 0 ft/0 m (sea level) at the Pacific Ocean, Buenos Aires beach, and Moche River estuary waterways.

The Trujillo Metropolitan Area is the name used to refer to the metropolitan area whose core is the city of Trujillo, capital La Libertad Region, this metropolitan area located on the north coast of Peru, extends over an area of approximately 110,000 has and comprises nine of the eleven districts that make up the province of Trujillo.[1] According to population statistics of INEI, It is the second most populous metropolitan area of Peru.

History

Trujillo, years ago separated from the other localities by the wall Trujillo, is now fully expanded to the four cardinal points of the ancient wall fragments are only historically preserved. However, Trujillo has been influential to nearby cities for decades, having great interaction with them. The urban integration of some of these towns to the metropolis has led its growth. An aerial photograph from the satellite shows a single urban area where it is difficult to distinguish the boundaries of Trujillo and its conurbation metropolitan districts, virtually separated only administratively.

Planning

The Planning of Peruvian metropolitan areas are made, by the government of municipalities of each city, with authority granted by Organic Law of Municipalities, and they have the support of an expert office for urban planning with specific functions. Wherefore officially valid data about districts conformation for metropolitan areas in Peru are those issued by official documents issued and validated by the respective municipal governments of each city under the law that local governments are autonomous political, economic and administrative matters within its jurisdiction and its powers according to the law of municipalities, an attribution of these is to approve the urban development plan.[2]

Extent and structure

The metropolitan area of Trujillo occupies a territory whose length is approximately 110,000 hectares, and comprises the lower Moche Valley or Valle de Santa Catalina and Intervalles to Chicama valley to the north and the Viru Valley southward with its central theme the irrigation project Chavimochic.

Population

According to PLANDET, agency of the Municipality of the city, Metropolitan Trujillo consists of the so-called Trujillo Urban Continuum formed by the districts of Trujillo, El Porvenir, Florencia de Mora, La Esperenza and Victor Larco Herrera, and the sector El Milagro of Huanchaco District, as well as all urban and rural settlements in the valley of Santa Catalina, the Moche river basin, which correspond to the districts of Huanchaco, Laredo, Moche and Salaverry, organized as a unit of planning.

Trujillo Metropolitan Area
Districts of
Trujillo Metropolitan[3] 		Data by Districts[4]
Elevation media
(msl)		 Distance (Approx.)
to Historic Centre of Trujillo (km)		 Ubigeo[5] Area
(km²)		 Density
(hab / km²)		 Population
2007		 Population
2015 (Est.)[6]
1. Trujillo 34 0 130101 39,36 7.035,5 194.899 318.914
2. Victor Larco Herrera 3 5 130111 18,02 7.035,5 294.899 64.024
3. La Esperanza 77 4 130105 18,64 7,8 151.845 182.494
4. El Porvenir 90 4 130102 36,7 3.609,29 140.507 186.127
5. Huanchaco 23 12 130104 333,9 114,2 44.806 68.104
6. Florencia de Mora 85 5 130101 1,99 18.802,5 40.014 41.914
7. Laredo 89 7 13

10106

 335,44 96,17 32.825 35.289
8. Moche 4 7 110107 25,25 1.146,7 29.727 34.503
9. Salaverry 3 14 130109 310,55 33,67 13.892 18.129
Trujillo Metropolitan - - - 110.000 837 804.296 910.498
Sources INEI:
Population 2007[7]
Estimated Population 2015[6]

Sources: Population 2007[7]

Population by districts

In the following table of population distribution can be seen the demographic evolution of Trujillo metropolitan by districts.

Demographic evolution of the Metropolis Trujillo since 1940
Metropolitan districts
of Trujillo [8] 		Population by year[9]
1940 1961 1972 1981 1993 2007 Estimated
2015[10]
1. Trujillo 45928 119221 132847 202469 247028 294899 318.914
2. La Esperanza * * 42113 62550 105361151845182.494
3. El Porvenir * * 58331 77198 80698 140507 186.127
4. Victor Larco Herrera * 4565 14140 21001 42169 55781 64.024
5. Huanchaco 780 1087 4497 7407 19935 44806 68.104
6. Florencia de Mora * * * * 35806 40014 41.914
7. Laredo * * 13269 15215 28019 32825 35.289
8. Moche 3773 5903 9000 11862 22020 29727 34.503
9. Salaverry 3403 4605 5284 5635 8278 13892 18.129
Trujillo metropolitan 53884 135381 279481 403337 589314 804296 909.498
Census made by the INEI[11]
Estimated Population-INEI.[12]* The asterisk sign indicates in that year the district had not been created yet.

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