Regions of Peru
Note: According to the Regionalization Law which was passed 18 Nov 2002, Peru is divided into 25 regions (regiones; singular: región) and Lima Province, located in the central coast of the country, which does not belong to any region. The mayor of Lima is the president of Municipality of Metropolitan Lima (Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima). Peru previously had regions during 1989-1992. Party abbreviations: AP
= Acción Popular (People's Action, center-right,
nationalist, est.7 Jul 1956); APP = Alianza
para el Progreso (Alliance for Progress,
progressive, center-right, est.8 Dec 2001);
APRA = Alianza Popular
Revolucionaria Americana "Partido Aprista" (American
Popular Revolutionary Alliance, "Aprista
Party", social democratic, center-left, banned
1931-45 & 1948-56, est.7 May 1924); ARA =
Movimiento Alianza Renace Ayacucho (Regional Movement
"Alliance Reborn Ayacucho", Ayacucho
regionalist, est.2013); AT
= Alianza por Tacna (Alliance for Tacna, Tacna
regionalist); AvP =
Avanza País (Go on Country, est.2000);
AUT = Acción por la Unidad Tacna (Action for
Taca Unity, est.16 Jan 2017);
CRD = Concertación en la
Región por la Descentralización (Consultation in the
region for Decentralization); DD = Democracia
Directa (Direct Democracy); FAENA = Movimiento
Independiente Regional FAENA (Regional
Independent Movement WORK, Tumbes regionalist,
est.2002); FD
= Fuerza Democrática (Democratic
Force); FIRME = Frente
De Integracion
Regional
Moquegua
Emprendedora
"Firme"
(Moquegua
Entrepreneurial
Regional
Integration
Front "Firm",
est.2010);
FL = Fuerza Loretana (Loreto
Force, Loreto regionalist, est.2005);
FP = Fuerza Popular (Popular Force,
conservative, Fujimorismo, est.2010); FR =
Fuerza Regional (Regional Force, est.8 Apr 2010);
GANA = Gran Alianza
Nacionalista de Cusco (Grand National Alliance of Cusco,
est.2010); Ind
= Independiente (Independent);
IzU = Izquierda
Unida (United Left); JSG = Junín
Sostenible con su Gente (Sustainable Junín with People,
Junín regionalist, est.2006); MCDRL
= Movimiento Concertación para el Desarrollo Regional de
Lima (Agreement for the Regional Development
of Lima Movement, Lima regionalist, est.2006);
MCP = Movimiento Cívico Peruano (Peruvian Civil
Movement); MICC
= Movimiento Independiente "Chim Pum Callao"
(Independent Movement "Chim Pum Callao",
est.2 Aug 2005); MIDE =
Movimiento Regional Integración Descentralista
(Decentralist Regional Integration Movement, Huánuco
regionalist, est.2011); MIDR = Movimiento
de Integración
por el
Desarrollo
Regional "Mi
Casita"
(Integration
Movement for
Regional
Development
"My House",
social
justice, ecologist,
Puna
regionalist,
est.26 Aug
2015);
MIFCAR = Movimiento Independiente Fuerza
Campesina Regional (Independent Movement Regional
Peasant Force, Apurimac regionalist, est.2013); MIFR
= Movimiento Independiente Fuerza Regional (Independent
Movement Regional Force, Piura regionalist, est.21 Aug
2014); MIL = Movimiento
Integración Loretana (Loreto Integration
Movement, Loreto
regionalist, est.2006); MINCAP
= Movimiento Independiente de Campesinos y
Profesionales (Independent Movement of Farmers
and Professionals, Huancavelica regionalist, est.2005);
MIOSO = Movimiento Independiente "Obras
siempre Obras" ("Work Always
Works" Independent Movement, Madre de
Dios regionalist, est.2005); MIRA =
Movimiento Independiente Regional "Ayllu" (Regional
Independent Movement "Ayllu",
Huancavelica regionalist, est.2013); MIRCU
= Movimiento Independiente Regional "Cambio Ucayalino"
(Independent Regional Movement "Change
Ucayali", est.2014); MIRE
= Movimiento de Innovación Regional (Movement
of Regional Innovation, Ayacucho regionalist, est.2005);
MIRPA = Movimiento Independiente
Regional "Puro Áncash" ("Pure Ancash"
Indepdendent Regional Movement, Áncash
regionalist, est.2010); MIRPC
= Movimiento Independiente Regional "Por ti Callao"
(Independent Regional Movement "For You Callao", Callao
regionalist, est.15 Feb 2014); MIRT
= Movimiento Independiente Regional "Trabajando para
Todos" (Regional Independent Movement "Working for All",
Huancavelica regionalist, est.2006); MNIz =
Movimiento Nacional de Izquierda (National Left
Movement); MNI = Movimiento
Nueva Izquierda (New Left Movement);
MPJ =
Movimiento Regional Patia Joven (Young Homeland
Regional Movement, Lima regionalist, est.2006);
MPRKC = Movimiento
Político Regional "Kausachun Cusco"
("Kausachun Cusco" Regional
Political Movement, Cusco regionalist,
est.14 Aug 2001); MRAR = Movimiento
Regional "Acción Regional" (Regional Movement
"Regional Action", San Martin regionalist, est.Mar
2006); MRATYF
= Movimiento Regional Arequipa,
Tradición y Futuro (Arequipa, Tradition and Future
Regional Movement, Arequipa
regionalist, est.25 Feb 2005);
MRFA = Movimiento Regional "Fuerza
Amazonense" ("Amazonian Force" Regional Movement,
Amazonas regionalist, est.2014);
MRKM = Movimiento Regional "Kausachun" Moquegua
("Kausachun" Regional Movement Moquegua,
est.2008); MRLK = Movimiento
Regional
"Llankasun
Kuska"
("Llankasun
Kuska"
Regional Movement, Apurímac
regionalist,
est.10 Jul 2015); MRNA
= Movimiento Independiente Regional "Nueva Amazonía"
(Regional Independent Movement "New Amazon", democratic
decentralist, Amazonía and San
Martin regionalist, est.1983); MRNM = Movimiento
Regional
"Musuq Ñan" ("Musuq
Ñan"
Regional
Movement, Ayacucho
regionalist, est.2011);
MROM = Movimiento Regional "Obras
Modernidad" (Regional Movement "Modernity Works", Ica
regionalist, est.18 Mar 2014); MRPV =
Movimiento Regional "Pasco Verde" ("Green
Pasco" Regional Movement, Pasco regionalist,
est.2014); MIRRSAC = Movimiento Independiente
Regional Río Santa Caudaloso (Regional
Independent Movement "Abundant
Santa River", Ancash regionalist,
est.2005); PDFS = Partido
Descentralista Fuerza Social (Social Force
Decentralist Party, center-left, est.2007); PDSP
= Partido Democrático Somos Perú (Democratic Party "We
Are Peru", est.1991); PHP = Partido
Movimiento Humanista Peruano (Peruvian
Humanist Movement Party, humanist, leftist, est.2001);
PIPC = Proyecto de la Integración para la
Cooperación (Project of Integration for
Cooperation, Puno regionalist, est.2013); PL
= Movimiento Político Regional "Perú Libre" ("Free
Peru" Regional Political Movement, Junín
regionlaist, est.2008); PPA =
Poder Popular Andino (Andean People Power, Apurímac
regionalist, est.2009); PPP = Podemos
por el
Progreso del
Perú (We can
for the
Progress of
Peru, est.18
Apr 2018);
PRI = Partido Regional de Integración
(Regional Integration Party, Ica regionalist, est.2005);
PSN = Partido Solidaridad Nacional (National
Solidarity Party, center-right, est.1999); RN
= Restauración Nacional (National Restoration, est.26
Dec 2005); ROMOT = Reconstrucción
con Obras Más Obras para un Tumbes Bello
(Reconstruction with Work more Work for a Beautiful
Tumbes, est.2006); SAR =
Movimiento Regional Sentimiento Amazonense (Amazonese
Feeling Regional Movement, Amazonas regionalist,
est.2013); UDN = Movimiento
Político Regional "Unión Democrática del Norte"
("Northern Democratic Union" Regional Political
Movement, Piura regionalist, est.2013); UGC
= Movimiento Regional Arequipa -
Unidos por el Gran Cambio (Arequipa Regional
Movement - United for Great Change, Arequipa
regionalist, est.2013); UNIPOL
= Movimiento Político Regional Unidos por Loreto (United
for Loreto Regional Political Movement, Loreto
regionalist, est.2002); UPP
= Unión por el Perú (Union for Peru, social democratic,
est.21 Sep 1994); VP = Vamos
Perú (Go Peru, Ica regionalist, est.27 Sep 2013); Regions from 2003
Presidents of the Region Áncash
Presidents of the Region Apurímac
Presidents of the Region Arequipa
Presidents of the Region Ayacucho Presidents of the Region Cajamarca
Presidents of the Region Callao
Presidents of the Region Cusco (Cuzco)
Presidents of the Region Huancavelica
Presidents of the Region Huánuco
Presidents of the Region Ica
Presidents of the Region Junín
Presidents of the Region
Presidents of the Region Lambayeque
Presidents of the Region Lima
Presidents of the Region Lima, Municipalidad Metropolitana
Mayors of the Municipality of Metropolitan Lima
Loreto
Presidents of the Region Madre de Dios
Presidents of the Region Moquegua
Presidents of the Region Pasco
Presidents of the Region Piura
Presidents of the Region Puno
San Martín
Presidents of the Region Tacna
Presidents of the Region Tumbes
Presidents of the Region Ucayali
Presidents of the Region Former Regions 1989-1992
Note: Constitution of 1979 contained provisions for the creation of autonomous regions, but these were not implemented. The elections for the first regional assemblies took place on 12 Nov 1989 (in Grau, Amazonas, Ucayali, Arequipa and José Carlos Mariátegui) and on 8 Apr 1990 (in Nor Oriental del Marañón, San Martín-La Libertad, Chavín, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Los Libertadores-Wari and Inca). On 5 Apr 1992, President Alberto Fujimori brought an abrupt end to the first elected regional governments and replaced them with Transitory Regional Administration Councils on 29 Dec 1992. Party abbreviations: AP = Acción Popular (People's Action, center-right, nationalist, est.1956); APRA = Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana "Partido Aprista" (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, "Aprista Party", social democratic, center-left, banned 1931-45 & 1948-56, est.1924); FREDEMO = Frente Democrático (Democratic Front, center-right, formed by AP, Movimiento Libertad and Partido Popular Cristiano, 1988-1990); IU = Izquierda Unida (United Left, former alliance of socialist and communist parties by Popular Democratic Unity, UNIR, PCP, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Revolutionary Communist Party and Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front [FOCEP], 11 Sep 1980-1995); PCP = Partido Comunista Peruano (Peruvian Communist Party, communist, part if IU, est.1930); PUM = Partido Unificado Mariateguista (Mariateguist Unified Party, est.1984, part of IU); UNIR = Unión Nacional de Izquierda Revolucionaria (National Union of the Revolutionary Left, front of Maoist communist parties, est.1980, part of IU) Amazonas 4 Mar 1988 Amazonas Region 14 Jun 1991 Renamed Loreto Region. President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Felipe Gilberto Alván Acosta AP/FREDEMO Andrés Avelino Cáceres President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Julio Wilmer Tarazona Padilla (b. 1951) PUM Arequipa Presidents of the Region 1990 - 1991 Víctor Manzur Suárez UNIR 1991 - 5 Apr 1992 José Eduardo Adolfo del Carpio (b. 1944) FREDEMO Begazo Chavín Presidents of the Region Jun 1990 - Jun 1991 Jaime Roosewelt Minaya Castromonte (b. 1943) UNIR Jun 1991 - 5 Apr 1992 Alberto Alfaro Beltrán Grau President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Luis Antonio Paredes Maceda (b. 1945 - d. 1992) APRA Inka (Inca) President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Adolfo Antonio Saloma González (b. 1947) UNIR José Carlos Mariátegui 15 Apr 1989 Moquegua-Tacna-Puno Region. 12 Mar 1990 Renamed José Carlos Mariátegui Region. President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Romeo Paca Pantigoso PUM Los Libertadores-Wari President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Oswaldo Aspilcueta Franco PCP Nor Oriental del Marañón President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Juan José Salazar García (b. 1947) APRA San Martín-La Libertad 4 Mar 1988 Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre Region. 17 Aug 1991 Renamed San Martín-La Libertad Region. President of the Region Jul 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Juan de Dios Cubas Cava APRA Ucayali President of the Region 1990 - 5 Apr 1992 Luis Espíritu Huerto Milla APRA © Ben Cahoon |