Callalli District

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Callalli
Location of Callalli in the Caylloma province
Coordinates: 15°30′26″S71°26′46″W / 15.5073°S 71.4462°W / -15.5073; -71.4462
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Arequipa
Province Caylloma
Founded1573
Capital Callalli
Government
   Mayor Florencio Josue Valdivia Mamani
Area
  Total
1,485.1 km2 (573.4 sq mi)
Elevation
3,867 m (12,687 ft)
Population
  Total
2,554
  Density1.7/km2 (4.5/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 040504
Website https://www.facebook.com/municallalli/

Callalli District is one of twenty districts of the Caylloma Province in Peru and is located within the geographical area of the Colca Canyon. [1]

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Its capital, Callalli, lies on an ancient trade route for Obsidian that ran from Chivay to Lake Titicaca around 1800-200BC. The earliest findings in the region, carvings of camelids in the Mollupunko Cave, date around 8,000 years back. [2] The town of Callalli was founded as a Spanish Reduccion in 1573 with the initial name of Alcantara de Callalli. [3] [4]

Callalli is the main seat of a catholic pastoral team that takes care of a 7,000 km² area including the towns of Callalli, Sibayo, Tisco, Imata and Caylloma. The parish is led by the Austrian priest and missionary Franz Windischhofer since 1991, whose work was acknowledged by the Peruvian government for "building a community of peace" in Peru since 1980. [5] [6]

Geography

One of the highest mountains of the district is Waran K'anthi at approximately 5,426 m (17,802 ft). Other mountains are listed below: [7]

Tourism

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (62.06%) learnt to speak in childhood, 37.48% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). [19]

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. 1 2 Ramos Yuera, Walter Billy (2018). Monografia y Fuentes Documentales sobre la historia del distrito de Callalli. Publicont S.A.C. p. 20.
  3. Yumpu.com. "este lad". yumpu.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  4. "Autoridad Autónoma del Colca y Anexos". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  5. "Se entregaron los "Premios por la Paz 2012"". El PNUD en Perú (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  6. "Conozca al sacerdote que aprendió quechua para llevar la palabra de Dios (FOTOS) | Foto 1 de 4". Diario Correo (in Spanish). 2017-05-07. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  7. escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL maps of the Caylloma Province 2, Arequipa Region
  8. "Esperan comercializar 300 alpacas por día en feria de Callalli". Infoalpacas (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  9. "COLCA CANYON: PERU'S LESSER KNOWN NATURAL WONDER". viestramagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  10. "Callalli: tierra de los castillos encantados". RPP (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  11. "Callalli – Autocolca" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  12. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  13. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  14. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  15. "Callalli". Archived from the original on 14 March 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  16. 1 2 "Arequipa: Chullpas Tahuaya e iglesia Llapa Yanahuara". Google Photos. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  17. "Ventana del Colca: Destino De Aventura". De Aventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  18. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  19. 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 aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

15°30′26″S71°26′46″W / 15.5073°S 71.4462°W / -15.5073; -71.4462