Amashca District

Amashca
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Founded	December 14, 1941
Capital	Amashca
Government
•  Mayor	Leoncio Jaime Cadillo Chapeton
Area
• Total	11.99 km2 (4.63 sq mi)
Elevation	2,850 m (9,350 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	1,745
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020603

Location of the province Carhuaz in the Ancash region in Peru

Amashca District is one of eleven districts of the Carhuaz Province 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 (87.56%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.25% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). ^[2]

See also

• Ancash Quechua

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived May 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish)

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