Sauce District

Sauce (hispanicized spelling of Quechua sawsi willow)[1] is one of fourteen districts of the province San Martín in Peru.[2]

For the mountain in the Arequipa Region, Peru, spelled Sawsi or Sauce, see Sawsi.
Sauce
Sawsi
District
Country Peru
RegionSan Martín
ProvinceSan Martín
FoundedMay 20, 1936
CapitalSauce
Government
 • MayorSebastian Calderon Bacon
Area
 • Total103 km2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation
600 m (2,000 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total5,350
 • Density52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO220913

Geography

Located in the foothills of the Cordillera Oriental (Peru), the town is 614 m a.s.l. and 51 km south of the Tarapoto city, across the Huallaga River, 6°42’12” south latitude and 76°15’15” west longitude.

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References
  1. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  2. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.

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