Laraos District

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Laraos
Laraw
District
Laraos Yauyos.jpg
View of the town of Laraos
Coordinates: 12°20′48″S75°47′08″W / 12.3468°S 75.7856°W / -12.3468; -75.7856 Coordinates: 12°20′48″S75°47′08″W / 12.3468°S 75.7856°W / -12.3468; -75.7856
CountryPeru
Region Lima
Province Yauyos
Capital Laraos
Government
 •  Mayor Albin Laureano Brañez Huallullo
Area
 • Total403.76 km2 (155.89 sq mi)
Elevation
3,563 m (11,690 ft)
Population
 (2017)
 • Total546
 • Density1.4/km2 (3.5/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 151018

Laraos District is one of thirty-three districts of the province Yauyos in the Lima Region in Peru. [1]

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Elderly people in Laraos still speak an archaic Quechua dialect. As no more children speak the language, it is in imminent danger of extinction. [2]

History

The Laraos District is one of oldest of the Yauyos Province, and its history is ample and emerges from the pre-incan times. Its preceding town is Sinchimarka, cradle of forgers, but simultaneously brave and militant men, like all the tribes who conformed the Yauyos, who were tenacious resistants before being conquered by the incan leader Pachakutiq. The pre-incan towns of Laraos are: Wanllapata, Waqramarka, Wayawmarka and Callawarqui. Sinchimarka is an incan citadel.

In 1586, being viceroy Don Fernando de Torres of Portugal, the first mayor of Yauyos, Don Diego Dávila Briceño, made the territorial demarcation and formed four parishes or curatos with more than four towns each one, entrusted at the service of the Dominican priests. These were: Santo Domingo de Yauyos, Santo Domingo de Laraos, San Cristóbal de Huánec and Santa Maria de Pampas.

It is to say that with the Spanish conquest, the natives of Sinchimarka were forced to become transferred to the present location of the district. Thus this one acquires the denomination of Santo Domingo de Cocha Laraos, being one of the most important towns and then they contributed in the process of cristanization of the inhabitants of Yauyos.

Etymology

Its name comes from a derivative of the word Jaqi or Jaqaru Larawpukyu (laraw paved street, pukyu spring, "spring in the paved street", Hispanicized Laraupugio). With the Andean transculturization it is transformed into Laraus (plural), so it means paved streets, and with the castellanization it is pronounced Laraos.

Political division

The farming community of Laraos was recognized the 2 of September 1938. Their annexes are San Juan de Langaico and Lanca. Its populated centers are Llapay and Tintin. The town is divided into ten main streets: Callhuapampa, Ansaya, Larpa, Callampa, Súniqui, Cancayllu, Achallanca, Warcaña, Caracara and Chunchillo.

Geography

Pumaqucha ("cougar lake") in the Laraos District PUMACOCHA.jpg
Pumaqucha ("cougar lake") in the Laraos District

The Cordillera Central traverses the district. One of the highest peaks of the district is Tanraniyuq at approximately 5,400 m (17,700 ft). Other mountains are listed below: [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Banco de Información Distrital". desa.inei.gob.pe (in Spanish). 2008-04-23. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ↑ Trigger, Bruce G.; Washburn, Wilcomb E.; Adams, Richard E. W.; Salomon, Frank; MacLeod, Murdo J.; Schwartz, Stuart B. (1996). The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America. Cambridge University Press. p. 457. ISBN   978-0-521-63076-4.
  3. ↑ "UGEL map of the Yauyos Province (Lima Region)" (pdf). ESCALE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  4. ↑ Peru 1:100,000 / prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Topographic Center (in Spanish), Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico, 1994, OCLC   756623505 – via National Library of Australia
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