Huando District

Huando Wantu
District
Country	Peru
Region	Huancavelica
Province	Huancavelica
Founded	November 16, 1892
Capital	Huando
Government
•  Mayor	Robert Geronimo Guerra Quinteros
Area
• Total	193.9 km2 (74.9 sq mi)
Elevation	3,562 m (11,686 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	8,678
• Density	45/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	090119

Huando District is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica 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 (53.49%) learnt to speak in childhood, 46.10% 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 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 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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