Economy
This department includes inter-Andean and forest regions. It has a strong forestal and hydro energetics potential. The province of Bagua, because of geographical factors, has an incipient development based on cultivations like rice, coffee, Cocoa bean, fruit trees and livestock.
The department of Amazonas presents three well-defined geographical fields:
- The district of El Cenepa (province of Condorcanqui) that has a climate of humid tropical forest
- The province of Bagua, which has a climate of dry tropical forest; and
- The other provinces with a typical formation of very humid low mountainous forest, humid subtropical forest and dry low mountainous forest.
The provinces of Bongará, Luya and Chachapoyas present a very hilly geographical configuration, that gives them mountain range characteristics.
Amazonas has an eminently agrarian economy. In its extensive territory, it concentrates valuable natural resources: agricultural, mining and energy.
The department has excellent and favorable conditions in both: climate and pastures availability for the agricultural-livestock development.
The information about structure of the agricultural surface, size of the agricultural units, main cultivations and cattle population is taken from what was recorded in the III National Agricultural Census 1994 (III CENAGRO), made by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) (National Institute of Statistics and Informatics).
The department of Amazonas has 48,173 agricultural units (UA) with 9,811.75 km2. 99.9% of the UA have lands and 0.1% do not have them. This 0.1% are exclusively dedicated to the breeding of animals.
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