To date it has only been found in the vicinity of Oxapampa, Peru.
In March 1857 a group of 300 Tyrolean and Prussian settlers, consisting mainly of poor peasant families and couples who weren't allowed to marry in their home countries, boarded the “Norton” to go to Peru.
In later years, the descendants of the German immigrants would go on to found new cities throughout the central jungle such as Oxapampa and Villa Rica.
An exception to this would be a German population which arrived at the port of Huacho and traveled inland to colonize the Pozuzo and Oxapampa regions.
Its jurisdiction also includes the Oxapampa Province of the Pasco Region and the Tayacaja Province of the Huancavelica Region.
This basin departmental limit Huánuco is understood between the Yanachaka mountain range to the east and the line - Pasco, for the north-east the line provincial limit Oxapampa - Cerro de Pasco for the south-west.