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Key facts
- Country
- Peru
- Established
- June 18, 1890
- Capital
- Pucallpa
- Provinces
- List Atalaya Coronel Portillo Padre Abad Purús
- Type
- Regional Government
- Governor
- Francisco Pezo Torres
- Total
- 101,830.64 km (39,317.03 sq mi)
- Elevation capital
- 120 m (390 ft)
- Highest elevation
- 350 m (1,150 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 135 m (443 ft)
- Density
- 4.87534/km (12.6271/sq mi)
- Demonym
- ucayalino/a
- Dialing code
- 061
- Iso 3166 code
- PE-UCA
- Principal resources
- Wood, fruit.
- Poverty rate
- 33.5%
- Percentage of peru s gdp
- 0.85%
- Website
- www.regionucayali.gob.pe
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Peru
- Demonym
- ucayalino
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Peru
- Contains
- Purús Province
- Capital
- Pucallpa
- Population
- 660256
- Area
- 102199.28
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Shares border with
- Acre
- Image
- Ucayali basin.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ucayali Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Department of Ucayali
- language used
- Shipibo-Conibo
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Encyclopedic overview
Ucayali ( Spanish pronunciation: [ukaˈʝali]) is a department of Peru. Located in the Amazon rainforest, it is the second largest department in Peru, after Loreto. It is administered by a regional government. Its capital is the city of Pucallpa.
The arapaima is depicted on both the flag and the seal of the region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ucayali Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.