Castilla District

District in Piura, Peru

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Coordinates: 5°07′47″S 80°30′52″W / 5.12972°S 80.51444°W / -5.12972; -80.51444Country

PeruRegionPiuraProvincePiuraFoundedMarch 30, 1861CapitalCastillaGovernment

• MayorJosé Elías Aguilar Silva^[1]
(2019–2021)Area

• Total662.23 km² (255.69 sq mi)Elevation

30 m (100 ft)Population

(2005 census)

• Total120,766 • Density180/km² (470/sq mi)Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)UBIGEO200104Websitemunicastilla.gob.pe

Castilla District is one of ten districts of the province Piura in Peru.^[2] The district was created in 1861 during the presidency of Ramón Castilla. In 2007, it had a population of 120,000.^[3]

Climate

Climate data for Miraflores, Castilla, elevation 34 m (112 ft), (1991–2020)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	33.6 (92.5)	34.3 (93.7)	34.3 (93.7)	32.7 (90.9)	30.6 (87.1)	28.5 (83.3)	27.7 (81.9)	28.0 (82.4)	28.9 (84.0)	29.4 (84.9)	30.2 (86.4)	31.8 (89.2)	30.8 (87.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	22.2 (72.0)	23.4 (74.1)	23.2 (73.8)	21.6 (70.9)	20.0 (68.0)	18.6 (65.5)	17.6 (63.7)	17.4 (63.3)	17.5 (63.5)	17.9 (64.2)	18.5 (65.3)	20.2 (68.4)	19.8 (67.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	31.9 (1.26)	39.2 (1.54)	61.3 (2.41)	18.5 (0.73)	1.8 (0.07)	0.2 (0.01)	0.2 (0.01)	0.0 (0.0)	0.1 (0.00)	0.5 (0.02)	0.8 (0.03)	7.9 (0.31)	162.4 (6.39)
Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru^[4]

References

^ Redacción (January 2, 2019). "José Aguilar juramentó como nuevo alcalde de Castilla". Noticias Piura 3.0 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
^ city population
^ "Normales Climáticas Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024.