Colquioc District

Colquioc Qullqiyuq
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Bolognesi
Founded	January 29, 1965
Capital	Chasquitambo
Government
•  Mayor	Guillermo Carlos Pariasca Dextre
Area
• Total	274.61 km2 (106.03 sq mi)
Elevation	743 m (2,438 ft)
Population  (2017 census)
• Total	1,972
• Density	7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020507

Colquioc (Hispanicized spelling of the Quechua term Qullqiyuq, qullqi silver, -yuq a suffix, ^[1] "the one with silver") is one of the fifteen districts of the province Bolognesi in Peru. ^[2]

References

1. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
2. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.

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