Acos Vinchos District

Acos Vinchos
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ayacucho
Province	Huamanga
Capital	Acos Vinchos
Government
•  Mayor	Flor Rosmeri Perez Barreto
Area
• Total	152.28 km2 (58.80 sq mi)
Elevation	2,848 m (9,344 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	4,882
• Density	32/km2 (83/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	050103

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Acos Vinchos District is one of fifteen districts of the province Huamanga in Peru. ^[1]

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (93.01%) learnt to speak in childhood, 6.78% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). ^[2]

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

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