Chaccho District

Chaccho
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Antonio Raymondi
Founded	October 26, 1964
Capital	Chaccho
Area
• Total	73.99 km2 (28.57 sq mi)
Elevation	3,329 m (10,922 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	2,137
• Density	29/km2 (75/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020303

Chaccho District is one of six districts of the Antonio Raymondi 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 (73.57%) learnt to speak in childhood, 25.88% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). ^[2]

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 aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

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