Bolívar (formerly Cajamarquilla)1940 legislative act, congreso.pob.pe (title of 1940 act says, in partial translation, "The name of the capital of the province of Bolívar, currently Cajamarquilla, shall be replaced with "Bolívar,"," as was the district name. The province name was changed in to Bolívar in 1925) is a town in the northern Pacific coastal region of Peru. It is the capital city of the Bolívar District and Bolívar Province, which lays within the Department of La Libertad.
The village was originally named Caxamarquilla or Cajamarquilla (not the same location as the archaeological site near Lima of the same name), and was renamed Bolívar in 1940. In pre-independence times, it was the capital of the corregimiento of Cajamarquilla, also called Pataz. It came under the Intendancy of Trujillo when that was created in 1784.Arbitraje de límites entre el Perú y el Ecuador, p. 27 (1927) Upon independence, it was first included in Pataz province, and it was the capital of the Cajamarquilla district within the province. When Bolívar province (as Cajamarquilla province) was created in 1916, it became part of that province and was named the capital of the new province.Ley No. 2346 (1916)
In the 2017 Peruvian census, it had a population of 1,620, the only settlement of any substantial size in the district, which had a population of 4,455, and also the largest town in the province, which had a population of 14,457.Directorio Nacional de Centros Poblados (2017) (access spreadsheet for Departamento de La Libertad, Bolivar district numbers begin at line 418)
The town's population in 1877 was 1,276.Diccionario geográfico estadíco del Perú, p. 123 (1877)
References
External links PROVINCIA DE BOLIVAR LA LIBERTAD - UNA BREVE PRESENTACIÓN (locally produced 2011 video, in Spanish, about the province and town)