Sauce District

For the mountain in the Arequipa Region, Peru, spelled Sawsi or Sauce, see Sawsi.
Sauce
Sawsi
District
Country  Peru
Region San Martín
Province San Martín
Founded May 20, 1936
Capital Sauce
Government
  Mayor Sebastian Calderon Bacon
Area
  Total 103 km2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation 600 m (2,000 ft)
Population (2005 census)
  Total 5,350
  Density 52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone PET (UTC-5)
UBIGEO 220913

Sauce (hispanicized spelling of Quechua sawsi willow)[1] is one of fourteen districts of the province San Martín in Peru.[2]

Places of interest

References

  1. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  2. (Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital. Retrieved April 11, 2008.


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