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Huanuco’s Governor Jorge Espinoza presented a US$ 987 million project portfolio to national and international entrepreneurs participating in the International Investment Forum for Peruvian regions - Peru Regiones 2009.

The small hydroelectric centrals of Huertas, Pana, Ambo, San Juan, Vizcarra, Llata and Chinchao, for example, need a 60 million dollar investment.

Some other 650 million dollars are needed for the InterOceanic highway in the stretch Huacho-Sayán-Churín-Oyón-Yanahuanca-Ambo-Huánuco-Panao- Chaglla-Codo del Pozuzo-Puerto Iparía-Puerto Putaya-Villa Taumaturgo, in Acre, Brazil.

Other projects include the Park of Huanuco (4 million dollars), the creation of the technologic city in Tingo Maria (16 million), and the waste water treatment plant of Huanuco (5 million dollars).

Espinoza also presented projects to promote the cultivation of palm  oil (46 million dollar), the cultivation of cacao in the province of Leoncio Prado (15 million), and the integral management of forests (20 million).

Huanuco is a department that offers all the legal, social and security guarantees for investors, he assured.

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