Amazonas Region

The Region of Amazonas is a region of Peru. It is in the northwest part of the country. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas.

Geography

The Amazonas Region has a lot of rainforests and mountain ranges. The rainforest zone covers 72.93% of the area, and it goes to the north, up to the border with Ecuador. It does this in the summits of the Cordillera del Cóndor. The mountain range zone is in the southern provinces of the Amazonas Region. It makes up 27.07% of the region's land.

People
Aguaruna and Huambisa people live in the region.

 Languages 
The 2007 Peru Census says that the language learnt first by most of the people was Spanish (84.90%). The following table shows the results of the language learnt first in the Amazonas Region by province:inei.gob.pe   INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

 Province Quechua Aymara Asháninka Another native language Spanish Foreign language Deaf or mute TotalBagua131151616,10849,8813 	12266,276 	Bongará203634,6813,5415 	6038,316Chachapoyas1141353846,467 	21 	14746,805Condorcanqui26651625,64413 	7325,783Luya346-644,6718 	27444,999Rodríguez de Mendoza1825124,644- 	8024,750Utcubamba115209187100,9581 	194101,484 	Total458654651,037	295,806 	51950348,413		%0.130.020.0114.6584.900.010.27100.00

References

Other websites
Amazonas region official website 
Peru Info: Amazonas Region 
Chachapoyas map