Districtalization: A Solution for Juliaca’s Development

• Main Author: Andrés Choquehuanca Huanca
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 2014-06-01
• Series: Espacio y Desarrollo
• Subjects: crecimiento demográfico y económico; problemas sociales y la distritalización
• Online Access: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/espacioydesarrollo/article/view/13971

Juliaca is already a great city, which is growing rapidly with disorder and thus there is chaos inanyway. It is almost 300 000 inhabitants plus the floating population, which lives mostly in the more than 350 human settlements.During the 75 years between 1940, when it had 6034 inhabitants to 2007 the city of Juliaca has increased 50 times, with an annual rate of 4%, becoming the first most populated highland city in southern Peru after Arequipa and Tacna, and the eleventh largest city of Peru. This phenomenon has generated very vast social problems such as chaos in trade, transportation, lack of security, lack of infrastructure, deficient basic services of water, drainage, and flood control. Then, there is a population resistance to centrality and to the unreasonable local government behavior to adequately attend Juliaca’s needs.With this background Juliaca should be decentralized, at least in five districts considering the current urbanized area of Juliaca and four other districts from the first ring (ring) involving multiple cores of urban development. This may empower the authorities, reverse chaos and disorder and facilitate the solution of social problems.