Ataquero District

Ataquero
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Founded	December 14, 1934
Capital	Carhuac
Government
•  Mayor	Fermín Jaime Gutiérrez Mendoza (2019–2022)
Area
• Total	47.22 km2 (18.23 sq mi)
Elevation	2,719 m (8,921 ft)
Population  (2017)
• Total	1,469
• Density	31/km2 (81/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020605

Ataquero 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 (87.77%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.16% 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 April 23, 2008, 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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