page_title: Department of Ayacucho
section_title: Political division
hierarchical_section_title: Department of Ayacucho / Political division
caption_attribution_description: Provinces of the Ayacucho region in Peru (Map)
context_page_description: Ayacucho is a department of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit by terrorism in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path known as the internal conflict in Peru.
  A referendum was held on 30 October 2005, in order to decide whether the department would merge with the departments of Ica and Huancavelica to form the new Ica-Ayacucho-Huancavelica Region, as part of the decentralization process in Peru. The bill failed and Ayacucho remained an independent department.
context_section_description: The department  is divided into 11 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular: provincia), which are composed of 111 districts (distritos, singular: distrito).
caption: Map of the Ayacucho region showing its provinces
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