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==Location==
'''La Merced''' is situated on {{coor dms|11|03|43|S|75|20|06|W|}}, 75 km east of the regional capital [[Huancayo-Junín]] and 220 km northeast of the country's capital [[Lima]], at an elevation of 751 m above sea level.
It was founded about 1884 by Jose Manuel Pereira after the Pacific war by a group of Italian immigrants. Before that period there were many attempts to colonize Chanchamayo's valley but were repelled by the local Ashaninkas. The peruvian army protected the colonist with a small garrison in Kimiri in front of the actual barracks. Gradually the Ashaninkas moved
It lies on the western bank of the [[Río Chanchamayo]] which later becomes [[Río Perené]] tributary of the Amazonas.
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