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Proper villages: a church, a main street, a few thousand people at most. This is the tier where local knowledge starts to matter more than general geography.

In Peru this set is spread across 20 different departments, with La Libertad home to the most of them (10).

How this category is defined

Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.

Places in this set

61

Smallest population

14,915

Largest population

29,678

Median population

21,128

Two you might get asked about

Chicama
14,915 inhabitants, La Libertad
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

La Rinconada
29,678 inhabitants, Puno
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 61 villages in Peru

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	department
La Rinconada	29,678	Puno
Pacasmayo	29,165	La Libertad
Tocache	29,029	San Martín Department
Mollendo	28,953	Arequipa
Chaupimarca	28,666	Pasco
Paramonga	27,631	Lima region
La Peca	27,045	Amazonas
Chancay	26,958	Lima region
Hualmay	26,658	Lima region
Monsefú	25,707	Lambayeque
Marcavelica	25,645	Piura
San Vicente de Cañete	25,517	Lima region
Querecotillo	25,396	Piura
Guadalupe	25,376	La Libertad
Quillabamba	25,300	Cuzco Department
Requena	25,300	Loreto
Santa Ana	25,145	Cuzco Department
Rioja	25,057	San Martín Department
La Banda	24,932	San Martín Department
Laredo	24,691	La Libertad
Yanacancha	24,105	Pasco
Yauri	23,867	Cuzco Department
Nazca	23,556	Ica
Yanacancha	23,175	Huánuco Department
Sechura	23,020	Piura
Moche	22,581	La Libertad
Ayaviri	22,247	Puno
Ilave	22,200	Puno
Santiago de Cao	21,982	La Libertad
Huamachuco	21,768	La Libertad
Paiján	21,128	La Libertad
Jauja	21,057	Junin
Contamana	20,900	Loreto
Virú	20,774	La Libertad
Huaura	20,723	Lima region
Bagua Grande	20,382	Amazonas
El Pedregal	20,063	Arequipa
Huanta	18,627	Ayacucho
Aguaytía	18,318	Ucayali
Santa Rosa	18,057	Junin
Uchiza	17,742	San Martín Department
La Breita	17,693	Piura
Andahuaylas	17,444	Apurímac Department
Mala	17,260	Lima region
Zarumilla	16,907	Tumbes
Atalaya	16,700	Ucayali
Camaná	16,434	Arequipa
San Martín de Pangoa	16,262	Junin
San Pedro de Lloc	16,250	La Libertad
Huarmey	16,172	Ancash
Chongoyape	16,061	Lambayeque
San Clemente	15,815	Ica
San Antonio	15,633	Moquegua Department
Pimentel	15,552	Lambayeque
Satipo	15,532	Junin
Minas de Marcona	15,478	Ica
Junín	15,320	Junin
Pátapo	15,270	Lambayeque
Bellavista	15,231	San Martín Department
Coishco	15,083	Ancash
Chicama	14,915	La Libertad

Tips for this category

If you have ever driven through the region, trust that memory over a guess based on the name alone.
Villages tend to sit along old roads and rivers rather than in a grid, so look for natural lines on the map.

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