Atalaya, Peru

Atalaya is a town of Peru. It is the capital of both Atalaya Province and Raymondi District in the Ucayali region, set where the Tambo and Urubamba rivers join to form the Ucayali River. The City Population register treats it as a single urban locality (a centro poblado) in the Ucayali department. City Population, which tabulates results of Peru's national statistics institute INEI, counts 15,162 residents at the 22 October 2017 census, 9,103 at the 2007 census. Its calculated figure for 30 June 2022 is 16,700. 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.