{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> | name = Marcona | native_name = | native_name_lang = es<!-- ISO 639-2 code e.g. "es" for Spanish --> | settlement_type = District | image_skyline = Marcona.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_alt = | image_shield = COA Marcona District in Nazca Province.png | shield_alt = | nickname = | image_map = | mapsize = frameless | map_alt = | map_caption = Location of Marcona in the Nazca province | coordinates = | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Peru | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Ica | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = Nazca | parts_type = Subdivisions | parts_style = para | p1 = | established_title = Founded | established_date = May 10, 1955 | seat_type = Capital | seat = San Juan | leader_party = | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Joel Roberto Rosales Pacheco | unit_pref = Metric<!-- or US or UK --> | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 1955.36 | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 65 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 11570 | population_as_of = 2005 census | population_density_km2 = auto | population_note = | timezone1 = PET | utc_offset1 = -5 | blank_name_sec1 = UBIGEO | blank_info_sec1 = 110304 | website = [http://www.munimarcona.gob.pe munimarcona.gob.pe] | footnotes = }}
'''Marcona District''' is one of five districts of the province Nazca in Peru.<ref>{{in lang|es}} Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. ''[http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/ Banco de Información Distrital] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417091049/http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/ |date=April 17, 2008 }}''. Retrieved April 11, 2008.</ref> The district capital is San Juan de Marcona a port on the Pacific coast.
==Marcona Mine== The major industry in the Marcona District is the Marcona Mine, an open-pit iron mine. The mine was acquired in 1992 by Shougang Corporation a state owned Chinese corporation which does business locally as Shougang Hierro Peru.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/americas/15chinaperu.html "Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru"] article by Simon Romero in ''The New York Times'' August 14, 2010, accessed August 14, 2010</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/MARCONA_MINE.html |title=Info portal at InfoMine.Com |access-date=August 15, 2010 |archive-date=December 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213141514/http://www.infomine.com/index/properties/MARCONA_MINE.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Economy and history== In addition to mining, there is trade and commercial fishing.
In 1870, the Italian-born Peruvian geographer Antonio Raimnondi found the iron ore reserves. The first explorations of the zone in terms of ores and minerals were started in 1915.
Marcona District is the only area in Peru that mines iron ore and produces iron. The capital of the district San Juan de Marcona is located in Ica Region, Nazca Province. The exploitations of iron ore begun in 1953 in the bay of San Juan, in parts by the United States company Marcona Mining Company.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Recent History of Marcona (In Spanish)|url=https://munimarcona.gob.pe/historia/|website=MuniMarcona.Gob.PE}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514005736/http://www.munimarcona.gob.pe/ Municipal web site] {{in lang|es}}
{{Districts of Nazca Province}}
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Category:Districts of the Department of Ica Category:Districts of the Nazca province Category:1955 establishments in Peru Category:States and territories established in 1955
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