Juanjuí

Juanjuí
—  Town  —
Plaza de Armas at night.
Seal
Nickname(s): Ciudad de los Encantos (The city of the Charm)
Juanjuí
Coordinates: 7°10′48.86″S 76°43′35.28″W
Country	Peru
Region	San Martín
Province	Mariscal Cáceres
District	Juanjuí
Government
• Mayor	Renan Saavedra Sandoval
Elevation	283 m (928 ft)
Population
• Total	38,427
Time zone	PET (UTC-5)
Website	www.munijuanjui.gob.pe

Juanjuí is a town in Northern Peru, capital of the province Mariscal Cáceres in the San Martín Region and located in the left edge of Huallaga River. There are 38,427 inhabitants, according to the 2007 census.

History

Juanjui neighbors celebrating the creation of the province Mariscal Caceres in 1940.

The Spanish captain José Gaspar López Salcedo founded this city on September 24, 1827 under the name of Juanjui a contraction of "Juan Huido" (Juan, the escaped). The population of Juanjui originally formed mainly by immigrants from Lamas from the late eighteenth and early decades of the nineteenth century.

It is said that the pioneer of these immigrants was an Amerindian named Juan, who fled the Lamas, or by the mistreatment or persecution for justice of the missionaries. He came to give these territories and to live with the people of Chacho Village. After some years he returned to Lamas and brought his family and some other families who came attracted by the abundance of references wildlife. This immigration was intensified even further the independence cause. By then the settlement of Chacho Lamas was already known as the land of "Juan Huido", with it came more immigrants from Lamas.

Over the years, Juan Huido was derived the name of Juanjui to designate in any way to these territories.

On July 2, 1940. Juanjui was declared capital city of the new province of Mariscal Caceres

Neighborhoods

Palm Trees in Puerto Amberes.

In Juanjui, there are 8 representative neighborhoods around downtown:

• Chambira
• Juanjuicillo
• La Merced
• La Victoria
• Puerto Amberes
• San Juan
• Santa Rosa

External links

• (Spanish) www.juanjui.com