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Nanchoc District

Field	Value
name	Nanchoc
native_name_lang	es
settlement_type	District
pushpin_map	Peru
pushpin_mapsize	250px
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Peru
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Peru
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Cajamarca
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	San Miguel
parts_type	Subdivisions
parts_style	para
established_title	Founded
established_date	December 2, 1958
seat_type	Capital
seat	Nanchoc
leader_title	Mayor
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2	359
elevation_m	400
population_total	1368
population_as_of	Peru 2017 Census
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	PET
utc_offset1	-5
blank_name_sec1	UBIGEO
blank_info_sec1	061108

Nanchoc District is one of thirteen districts of San Miguel Province in the Cajamarca Region of Peru. In 2017, the district had an area of 359 sqkm and a population of 1,368. The capital of the district is the town of Nanchoc which had a population of 332 in 2017. The Nanchoc River, a tributary of the Zaña River, bisects the district.

Nanchoc is located in an irrigated and cultivated valley about 1 km wide and 60 km from the Pacific Ocean to the west. Between the valley and the ocean is a low range of mountains and the Peruvian coastal desert. East of Nanchoc the Andes rise sharply and the greater precipitation in the Andes feeds the Nanchoc River and its tributaries, permitting irrigated agriculture to flourish in the valley.

History

Nanchoc district was created 2 December 1958 by Law No. 13039 del 2, during the second government of President Manuel Prado Ugarteche. At the time the district included the population centers of Carahuasi, Bolívar, El Espino, Trigal, La Aventuraza, El Diamante, La Tambora and Tingues. Most of these communities were separated from Nanchoc district in 1989 and placed in Bolivar District.

Archaeology

On the western side of the Nanchoc river, about 3 km from the town of Nanchoc, archaeologist Tom Dillehay found evidence of the oldest known irrigation canals in the Americas, radiocarbon dated to at least 3400 BCE and possibly as old as 4700 BCE. The canals built by the people of Nanchoc at that time were utilized to irrigate crops such as peanuts, squash, manioc, and chenopods, a relative of Quinoa.

References

"[[Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática]]." [https://web.archive.org/web/20080423164200/http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/]. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
"City Population, [http://www.citypopulation.de/en/peru/cajamarca/admin/san_miguel/061108__nanchoc/], accessed 20 November 2020
"City Population," [http://www.citypopulation.de/en/peru/cajamarca/san_miguel/0611080001__nanchoc/], accessed 20 November 2020.
Google Earth
Leyes Congresso", [http://www.leyes.congreso.gob.pe/Documentos/Leyes/13039.pdf]. Accessed 12 October 2019
[http://www.muni-sanmiguel.gob.pe/index.php/ciudad/distritos-de-san-miguel/nanchoc Sitio web provincial] {{Webarchive. link. (2014-12-18 . Accessed 12 Oct 2019.)
(2005). "Preceramic irrigation canals in the Peruvian Andes". National Academy of Science.

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