Cullhuas District

Cullhuas
District
Cullhuas
Country	Peru
Region	Junín
Province	Huancayo
Founded	April 23, 1954
Capital	Cullhuas
Government
•  Mayor	Jeremias Heraclio Olivera Aliaga
Area
• Total	108.01 km2 (41.70 sq mi)
Elevation	3,663 m (12,018 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	2,940
• Density	27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	120113

Cullhuas District is one of twenty-eight districts of the province Huancayo 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 (63.39%) learnt to speak in childhood, 36.53% 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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