Carhuaz District

Carhuaz Qarwa
District
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Capital	Carhuaz
Government
•  Mayor	Oscar Roosevelt Cerna Gomez
Area
• Total	194.62 km2 (75.14 sq mi)
Elevation	2,638 m (8,655 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	13,615
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020601

Carhuaz District is one of eleven districts of the Carhuaz Province in the Ancash Region of Peru. ^[1] Its seat is Carhuaz.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (67.23%) learnt to speak in childhood, 32.60% 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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