Caballococha

Caballococha (Cabalo Cocha) is a town in the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, located on the Amazon River and right across the river from Colombia.

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Place details

Locality: Ramón Castilla
Region: Loreto
Country: Perú
Population: 11,100
Timezone: America/Lima

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Caballococha
Settlement.image_skyline: Plazacab.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Main square
Settlement.nicknames: (Sentinel of the border), (Mediterranean city)
Settlement.pushpin_map: Peru
Settlement.mapsize: frameless
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Caballococha in Peru
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Department
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Loreto
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Mariscal Ramón Castilla
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Ramón Castilla
Settlement.parts_type: Subdivisions
Settlement.parts_style: para
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: 1845

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: city
Country: Peru
Located in: Ramón Castilla District
Population: 9051
Elevation: 86
Capital of: Ramón Castilla District
Image: Plazacab.jpg

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twinned administrative body: Iquitos
Commons category: Caballococha
P12749: Ellen Swallow Richards
postal code: 16241

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Caballococha (Cabalo Cocha) is a town in the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, located on the Amazon River and right across the river from Colombia.

It is the capital of both Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province and Ramón Castilla District. , it had a population of 4,028 (1993).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caballococha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.