Comas
Location of Comas in the Lima Province Province
Street in Comas, 1991.
Country	Peru
Region	Lima Region
Province	Lima Province
Founded	January 2, 1857
Area
Area Elevation	48.75 km2 140
Population (as of the 2005 Census)
Population  - Total  - Density	496,100 (2002 estimate) 10,176.4 people/km
Mayor	Miguel Ángel Saldaña Reátegui
Official website
www.municomas.gob.pe

Comas is a district within the Province of Lima Country, Peru. Located within the Cono Norte area, of the city of Lima, it's one of the most populous districts in the country.

The current mayor of Comas is Miguel Ángel Saldaña Reátegui. The district's postal code is 7.

Geography

The district has a total land area of 48.75 km². Its administrative center is located 140 meters above sea level.

Boundaries

• North: Carabayllo
• East: San Juan de Lurigancho
• South: Independencia
• West: Puente Piedra and Los Olivos

Demographics

According to a 2002 sensus, estimated by the INEI, the district has 496,100 inhabitants and a population density of 10,176.4 persons/km². In 1999, Comas had 85,845 households.

History

During it's first years of existence, Comas was a pueblo joven. Comas found its humble beginings, as a direct result of the many organized invasions, led by immigrants from the highlands during the 1970s. Most of these peasants arrived from the regions of Junín and Huacanvelica in the central sierra of Peru.

Poverty

Comas is among the poorest districts in Lima, with a greater number of its population living under very precarious conditions.

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham visited the district's Lomas de Carabayllo. She visited with impoverished children to see how money raised by the Sports Relief charity is being spent. She appear on a BBC One documentary[1] for British television, about what she saw in this Peruvain Districts.

Transport and communications

There is 3 main roads serving the district, Avenida Túpac Amaru, Avenida Universitaria and the Chillón-Trapiche Highway.

Today

Comas has grown at an extremely fast pace, in the last decade Comas has develop ecconomically, infastructurally, and socially. It's boasts a huge middle-class and it has grown immensely from being a pueblo joven that is not in a so distant past. Despite this facts, still patches of poverty displayed by pueblos jovenes overshadowed by urbanizational development, parks, and commerce.

Other facts

The only civil aviation school in Peru is located in Comas, in the Aeroclub de Collique.

External links

• (Spanish) Municipalidad Distrital de Comas - Comas District Council official website
• (Spanish) ComasWeb - Comas District Portal

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