Justo Apu Sahuaraura District

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Justo Apu Sahuaraura
District
Justo Apu Sahuaraura District
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Apurímac
Province Aymaraes
FoundedSeptember 27, 1984
Capital Pichihua
Government
 •  Mayor Marcos Rosalio Zavala Benites
Area
 • Total
97.64 km2 (37.70 sq mi)
Elevation
3,150 m (10,330 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
1,048
 • Density11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 030408

Justo Apu Sahuaraura District is one of the seventeen districts of the province Aymaraes 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 (76.62%) learnt to speak in childhood, 23.28% 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 Digital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 7, 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)

13°51′47″S73°04′23″W / 13.86306°S 73.07306°W / -13.86306; -73.07306


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