During the 1980s, then Peruvian president Alan García proposed what was supposed to be a radical restructuring of the political and economical divisions of the country: regionalization. The law, which was approved, mandated the creation of regions to function eventually as autonomous economic and administrative entities; 12 regions were formed from 23 of the former 24 departments. Formation of another region was delayed by the reluctance of the Constitutional Province of Callao to merge with the Lima Department. Originally San Martín and La Libertad Regions formed the sole region of San Martín-La Libertad but later were split.
The regions had to assume major responsibilities because of inadequate funding from the central government, and organizational and political difficulties. This political division was never successful, and its implementation was cancelled.
| Region | Departments forming the region |
|---|---|
| Andrés Avelino Cáceres Region | Huánuco Department (except part of Marañón Province and Leoncio Prado Province), Pasco Department and Junín Department |
| Arequipa Region | Arequipa Department |
| Chavín Region | Ancash Department (plus part of the Marañón Province and Leoncio Prado Province of the Huánuco Department) |
| Grau Region | Tumbes Department and Piura Department |
| Inca Region | Cusco Department, Madre de Diós Department and Apurímac Department |
| La Libertad Region | La Libertad Department |
| Loreto Region | Loreto Department |
| Los Libertadores-Huari Region | Ica Department, Ayacucho Department and Huancavelica Department |
| José Carlos Mariátegui Region | Moquegua Department, Tacna Department and Puno Department |
| Nor-Oriental del Marañón Region | Lambayeque Department, Cajamarca Department and Amazonas Department |
| San Martín Region | San Martín Department |
| Ucayali Region | Ucayali Department |
Famous quotes containing the words regions and/or peru:
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard—it is absurd, unreal, dangerous.... The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)