Rondos District (Rondos)
Rondos District is one of seven districts of the province Lauricocha in the Huanuco Region of Peru. The district had an area of 172.7 sqkm and a population of 3,798 in 2017. The town of Rondos is the capital of the district and had a population of 826 in 2017. The town is situated on a mesa overlooking the junction of the Lauricocha and Nupe Rivers, 250 m in elevation below Rondos, to form the Marañon River. The headwaters of both the Lauricocha and Nupe rivers have been proposed as sources of the Amazon River.
The high elevation of Rondos impacts the climate which is typically cool and cloudy. Daily temperatures vary little during the course of a year and usually fall within a range of 2 C to 17 C degrees. The nearest weather station at San Miguel de Cauri, 30 km distant from Rondos, gets 872 mm of precipitation annually. Most is between October and April with a distinct dry season from May to September. The frost-free growing season is about 290 days long between 22 August and 8 June although freezing temperatures are possible from May to September.
The high elevation of Rondos impacts the climate which is typically cool and cloudy. Daily temperatures vary little during the course of a year and usually fall within a range of 2 C to 17 C degrees. The nearest weather station at San Miguel de Cauri, 30 km distant from Rondos, gets 872 mm of precipitation annually. Most is between October and April with a distinct dry season from May to September. The frost-free growing season is about 290 days long between 22 August and 8 June although freezing temperatures are possible from May to September.
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Peruvian territory was home to several cultures during the ancient and medieval periods, and has one of the longest histories of civilization of any country, tracing its heritage back to the 10th millennium BCE. Notable pre-colonial cultures and civilizations include the Caral-Supe civilization (the earliest civilization in the Americas and considered one of the cradles of civilization), the Nazca culture, the Wari and Tiwanaku empires, the Kingdom of Cusco, and the Inca Empire, the largest known state in the pre-Columbian Americas.
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ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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PEN | Peruvian sol | S/ | 2 |
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AY | Aymara language |
QU | Quechua language |
ES | Spanish language |