Casma province

Casma
Province
Sechin complex in the Casma Valley
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Casma in the Ancash Region
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Capital	Casma
Government
• Mayor	Luis Alarcón Llana (2019–2022)
Area
• Total	2,262.86 km2 (873.70 sq mi)
Population
• Total	50,989
• Density	23/km2 (58/sq mi)
Website	www.casma.anc.mp.gob.pe

Casma is one of twenty provinces in the Ancash Region of Peru.

Political division

Casma is divided into four districts:

District	Mayor
Buena Vista Alta	Maximo Pedro Vargas Cutamanca
Casma	Jose Luis Lomparte Monteza
Comandante Noel	Jose Alejandro Montalvan Macedo
Yautan	Jose Luis Del Carpio Melgarejo

Ethnic groups

The province is inhabited by indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Spanish is the language which the majority of the population (85.95%) learnt to speak in childhood. 13.82% of the residents started speaking using the Quechua language (2007 Peru Census). ^[1]

Sources

1. inei.gob.pe Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

External links

• (in Spanish) Official website of the province of Casma

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