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The current Mayor of Comas is Miguel Ángel Saldaña Reátegui. The district's Postal Code is 7. GEOGRAPHY The district has a total land Area of 48.75 km&2. Its administrative center is located 140 meters above Sea Level . Boundaries
DEMOGRAPHICS According to a 2002 estimate by the INEI , the district has 496,100 inhabitants and a population density of 10,176.4 persons/km&2. In 1999 , there were 85,845 households in the district. It is the 17th most populated district in Lima. HISTORY During its first years of existence, Comas was a '' Pueblo Joven '' that started as a result of the many organized invasions led by immigrants from the Highlands during the 1970s . Most of these Peasant s arrived from the regions of Junín and Huacanvelica in the central '' Sierra '' of Peru. POVERTY Comas is among the poorest districts in Lima, with a large amount of its population living under very precarious conditions. Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham visited the district's ''Lomas de Carabayllo'' neighborhood to live with impoverished children and show how money raised by the Sports Relief charity is being spent, appearing on a BBC One documentary. {Link without Title} TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS The main roads serving the district are Avenida Túpac Amaru, Avenida Universitaria and the Chillón-Trapiche Highway. That is a very old road, and the trafic is so heavy...and there's no more room to leave there. Unfortunately the poverty of Perú makes more the amount of people living there. TODAY Comas has grown at an extremely fast pace in the last decade developing ecconomically, infastructurally, and socially. It boasts a huge middle-class. It has grown immensely from being a ''pueblo joven'' in it's not so distant past. Despite this, there are still patches of poverty displayed by ''pueblos jovenes'' overshadowed by urbanization, parks, and commerce. OTHER FACTS The only Civil Aviation school in Peru is located in Comas, in the ''Aeroclub de Collique''. EXTERNAL LINKS
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