Carabaya Province

The Carabaya province is one of the thirteen that make up the department of Puno in southern Peru. It limits to the north with the department of Madre de Dios, to the east with the province of Sandia, to the south with the province of Azángaro and the province of Melgar, and to the west with the department of Cusco.

From the hierarchical point of view of the Catholic Church, it is part of the prelature of Ayaviri, suffragan of the archdiocese of Arequipa.

History

The first American authors designate this very ancient town-territory as the town of the callahuayas, carwayas, calabayas, carabayas, kallawayas, etc. All place names from the same place to differentiate it from the equally old canchis, chunchos, canas, omasuyos, collas, muxus, or other towns that existed and whose vestiges still survive between Cusco, Madre de Dios, Larecaja, La Paz, Beni, Pando and Puno current.

As a province, this territory shows evidence of having been inhabited by a population that developed away from and distinct from the influence of the Canchis of Sicuani (today), the Canas (in Canas) or the Chunchos of Madre de Dios (also today) and Larecaja (Bolivia), and almost without contact with the relatively distant collas of Puno and omasuyos (Bolivia). Surrounding cultures with which they traded and interrelated from pre-Inca times to the middle of the XX (twenty) century, in that order of priority as to at commercial volume, and with that order of frequency or affinity. In response to the aggression and suffering inflicted by the harsh geography, this town has managed to survive by creating a rich intangible heritage of arts and knowledge that made up and makes up a culture specific to its region. One of the most unique recognitions of this contribution consists of the quack cultural identification that has been regularly promoted at the regional level since the middle of the XVIII century< /span> (approx). Apparently, after the cinchona boom, a tree whose local varieties stood out for the quality of the antimalarial quinine they contained.

Given its location, during the viceroyalty of Peru, said territory was the subject of various expeditions aimed at locating the legendary lost city of Paititi, which left their mark on the establishment of cities and missionary posts. Known are the expeditions of Pedro de Candia, Anzúrez, Ñuflo de Chávez, Álvarez Maldonado, Recio de León and Diego de Zecenarro, the same ones that would lay the foundations for incorporating these territories into Peru, during the border conflict that arose with Bolivia in the early years of the 20th century.

Part of this territory of pre-Inca origin (without precise delimitation ad integrum), was assigned to the political jurisdiction of Puno on the date of its creation as mayor (Nov. 1776), although clerically it would never cease to belong to the bishopric of Cusco.

It has definitely formed part of the current department of Puno only since 1912. Before, Bolivia disputed part of Carabaya based on the uti possidetis of the Audiencia of Charcas in 1810. And Peru finally asserted the right by clerical belonging (to the bishopric of Cusco) and de facto integration ("70% of pre-20th century communications were with Sicuani; 20% with Azangaro and 10% with Larecaja (Bolivia)". approx. by Manuel Pando, Trip to Carabaya, 1902). The differences in criteria were clarified with Argentine arbitration: first, in 1902 and then, ten years later, it was reconfirmed with the acceptance of the binational protocol by the congresses of both republics. This would put an end to part of the precarious condition of delimitation of trinational territories (Brazil, Bolivia and Peru) with which the three republics had been formed at the beginning of the century XIX.

Carabaya the gold-bearing

• "...The last richness of [Carabaya] the Auriferous, consists of the product of the warm valleys, cocoa, coffee, coca, and rubber — apart its metallic gold deposits that have validated that epithet. Its current inhabitants reside almost entirely in villages in the highest parts of the valleys or valleys, or at the highest of the middle valleys and areas more or less accessible to the lands of the lower parts, many inhabitants of the high valleys have very small tracts of cokes, the villages so located, of which Cuyo Cuyo (10000 p of height) is located.
• (Clement Marckham, Travel through Peru and India, published in 1862) [the complete transcription of the document is archived in the group bibliography Carabaya].

Geography

It covers an area of 12,266.40 km².

Administrative division

This province is divided into ten districts:

1. Ajoyani
2. Ayapata
3. Coasa
4. Corani
5. Cruise
6. Ituata
7. Macusani
8. Ollachea
9. San Gabán
10. Usicayos

Population

In 2007, the census population was 73,946 inhabitants.

Capital

Its capital is the city of Macusani.

Authorities

Regional

• Regional advisers
  • 2019-2022
  1. Abdón Vidal Pacco Hancco (Frente Amplio para el Desarrollo del Pueblo)
  2. Noemí Elsa Cordova Leqque (Movimiento de Integración por el Desarrollo Regional, Mi Casita)

Municipal

• 2015-2018
  • Mayor: Edward Rodríguez Mendoza, Movimiento Proyecto de la Integración para la Cooperación (PICO).
  • Regidores: Uriel José Cuba Delgado (PICO), Pedro Huarsaya Maque (PICO), Julia Rosario Chacón Quispe (PICO), Windebel Eudis Gutiérrez Salguero (PICO), Juvenal Cutipa Leqque (PICO), Yadmani Tinta Ramos (PICO), Fidel León Lope Huamantuco (Political Project Here), Régulo Mamani Cachicatari
• 2011-2014
  • Mayor: Augusto Ronald Gutiérrez Rodrigo, Moral Movement and Development (MyD).
  • Regidores: Liborio Preciliano Lino Navarro (MyD), María Rosthana Cuba Delgado (MyD), Gualberto Laura Quilla (MyD), Peregrina Valenzuela Condori (MyD), Jorge Miguel Huallpa Calapuja (MyD), Raúl Antonio Peralta Quispe (MyD), Julio Antonio Chambizea Delgado (Political Project Here), Luis Albino Challo

Provincial Youth Council

• 2021-2023
  • President: Genaro Sánchez Luna.
  • Members: Juan Isidro Condori Catunta, Rosa Danitza Mamani Mamani, Eva Elva Turpo Mamani, Rocío Gonzales Araujo, Henry Torres Huaricallo.

Police

• Macusani police station
  • Commissioner: Commander PNP

Religious

• Prelature of Ayaviri
  • Prelate Bishop: Mons. Kay Martin Schmalhausen Panizo SCV
• Parish Saint John the Baptist
  • Párroco: Pbro. Alejandro Flores López LD