Junín, Peru

Junín is a town of Peru. It is the capital of Junín Province in the Junín department, on the southern shore of Lake Junín at an elevation of about 4,107 metres, and was founded in 1539. The City Population register treats it as a single urban locality (a centro poblado) in the Junín department. City Population, which tabulates results of Peru's national statistics institute INEI, counts 10,122 residents at the 22 October 2017 census, 9,974 at the 2007 census. Its calculated figure for 30 June 2022 is 9,600. It is one of the Peruvian cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants that the same page lists by department, where the census columns are counts and the 2022 column is a calculation made from adjusted census figures and INEI district projections.