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Ayacucho is one of the twenty-four departments that, together with the Constitutional Province of Callao, form the Republic of Peru. Its capital and most populated city is Ayacucho. It is located in the center of the country, in the Andean region, bounded on the north by Junín, on the northeast by Cuzco, on the east by Apurimac, on the south by Arequipa, on the west by Ica and on the northwest by Huancavelica. With 14.0 inhabitants / km² it is the seventh least densely populated, ahead of Pasco, Moquegua, Amazonas, Ucayali, Loreto and Madre de Dios, the least densely populated. It was founded on April 25, 1822.