Chazuta District

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| name = Chazuta District

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| native_name_lang = es

| settlement_type = District

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| pushpin_map = Peru

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| map_caption = Location of Chazuta in the San Martín province

| coordinates = {{coord|-6.5736|-76.1324|region:PE_type:adm3rd|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://geonames.nga.mil/namesviewer/ |title=GeoNames Search |work=Geographic Names Database |publisher=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA |accessdate=26 December 2016}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Peru

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = San Martín

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = San Martín

| parts_type = Subdivisions

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| established_title = Founded

| established_date = January 2, 1857

| seat_type = Capital

| seat = Chazuta

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| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Isaac Tangoa Panaifo

| unit_pref = Metric

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| area_total_km2 = 966.38

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| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 150

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 9563

| population_as_of = 2005 census

| population_density_km2 = auto

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| timezone1 = PET

| utc_offset1 = -5

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Chazuta District is one of fourteen districts of the province San Martín in Peru.{{in lang|es}} Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. [http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/ Banco de Información Distrital] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423164200/http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/ |date=April 23, 2008 }}. Retrieved April 11, 2008. San Martín Province is located in north central Peru, in San Martín Region, a highland area on the edge of the Amazon Basin. Immediately to the east of San Martín Region is the large lowland region of Loreto, in the northeast corner of Peru. The area is home to members of the Kichwa-Lamista ethnicity, who migrated to the area from province of Lamas between 1850 and 1920.{{cite book |last1=Chaparro |first1=Anahí |editor1-last=Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego Dirección General de Saneamiento de la Propiedad Agraria y Catastro Rural |title=TERRITORIOS Y RECURSOS NATURALES DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS EN LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA |date=2021 |publisher=Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego Dirección General de Saneamiento de la Propiedad Agraria y Catastro Rural |location=Lima |pages=107–120 |url=https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/2798646/La%20situación%20de%20tierras%2C%20territorios%20y%20recursos%20naturales%20de%20los%20pueblos%20ind%C3%ADgenas%20en%20la%20Amazon%C3%ADa%20Peruana.pdf |access-date=4 June 2023 |chapter=Los Kichwa de San Martín: impactos de las dinámicas territoriales en las cuencas de los ríos Mayo y Huallaga}}