Churcampa District

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Churcampa
District
Churcampa District
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Huancavelica
Province Churcampa
Capital Churcampa
Government
 •  Mayor Robert Juan Rojas Meza
Area
 • Total
141.36 km2 (54.58 sq mi)
Elevation
3,262 m (10,702 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
6,323
 • Density45/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 090501

Churcampa District is one of ten districts of the province Churcampa in Peru. [1]

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Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly Indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (62.59%) learnt to speak in childhood, 36.56% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). [2]

See also

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)

12°44′21″S74°23′16″W / 12.7392°S 74.3877°W / -12.7392; -74.3877


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