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Key facts
- Country
- Peru
- Capital
- Cerro de Pasco
- Provinces
- List Daniel Alcides Carrión Oxapampa Pasco
- Type
- Regional Government
- Governor
- Pedro Ubaldo Polinar
- Total
- 25,319.59 km (9,775.95 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 4,380 m (14,370 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 256 m (840 ft)
- Density
- 10.0343/km (25.9888/sq mi)
- Demonym
- pasqueño/a
- Dialing code
- 063
- Iso 3166 code
- PE-PAS
- Principal resources
- Lead, zinc, silver and coal.
- Percentage of peru s gdp
- 1.04%
- Website
- www.regionpasco.gob.pe
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Peru
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Peru
- Contains
- Pasco Province
- Capital
- Cerro de Pasco
- Population
- 264254
- Area
- 25025.84
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Shares border with
- Lima Department
- Image
- Bosque de Piedas Huayllay-Pasco Peru3.jpg
- Dialing code
- 63
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Encyclopedic overview
Pasco ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpasko]; Quechua: Pasqu) is a department of Peru. It is located in the country's central highlands. It is administered by a regional government. Its capital is Cerro de Pasco.
Political division
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pasco Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.