Callalli District

Callalli
Callalli is located in Peru
Callalli
Callalli
Location of Callalli in the Caylloma province
Coordinates: 15°30′26″S 71°26′46″W / 15.5073°S 71.4462°W / -15.5073; -71.4462
Country Peru
RegionArequipa
ProvinceCaylloma
Founded1573
CapitalCallalli
Government
 • MayorFlorencio Josue Valdivia Mamani
Area
 • Total1,485.1 km2 (573.4 sq mi)
Elevation
3,867 m (12,687 ft)
Population
 • Total2,554
 • Density1.7/km2 (4.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO040504
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/municallalli/

Callalli District is one of twenty districts of the Caylloma Province in Peru and is located within the geographical area of the Colca Canyon.[1]

Its capital, Callalli, lies on an ancient trade route for Obsidian that ran from Chivay to Lake Titicaca around 1800-200BC. The earliest findings in the region, carvings of camelids in the Mollupunko Cave, date around 8,000 years back.[2] The town of Callalli was founded as a Spanish Reduccion in 1573 with the initial name of Alcantara de Callalli.[3][4]

Callalli is the main seat of a catholic pastoral team that takes care of a 7,000 km² area including the towns of Callalli, Sibayo, Tisco, Imata and Caylloma. The parish is led by the Austrian priest and missionary Franz Windischhofer since 1991, whose work was acknowledged by the Peruvian government for "building a community of peace" in Peru since 1980.[5][6]

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
  2. ^ Ramos Yuera, Walter Billy (2018). Monografia y Fuentes Documentales sobre la historia del distrito de Callalli. Publicont S.A.C. p. 20.
  3. ^ Yumpu.com. "este lad". yumpu.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  4. ^ "Autoridad Autónoma del Colca y Anexos". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  5. ^ "Se entregaron los "Premios por la Paz 2012"". El PNUD en Perú (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  6. ^ "Conozca al sacerdote que aprendió quechua para llevar la palabra de Dios (FOTOS) | Foto 1 de 4". Diario Correo (in Spanish). 2017-05-07. Retrieved 2019-07-15.