Paiján

Paiján is a town of Peru. It is the capital of Paiján District in Ascope Province, La Libertad, beside the Pan-American Highway about 54 kilometres north of Trujillo in the Chicama Valley. The City Population register treats it as a single urban locality (a centro poblado) in the La Libertad department. City Population, which tabulates results of Peru's national statistics institute INEI, counts 22,007 residents at the 22 October 2017 census, 18,931 at the 2007 census, 15,210 at the 1993 census. Its calculated figure for 30 June 2022 is 24,200. 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.