Lucre District, Aymaraes

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Lucre
District
Lucre District, Aymaraes
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Apurímac
Province Aymaraes
FoundedMarch 24, 1960
Founded byLos Ríos
Capital Lucre
Government
 •  Mayor Marcos Orosco Guillen
Area
 • Total
110.48 km2 (42.66 sq mi)
Elevation
2,800 m (9,200 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
2,391
 • Density22/km2 (56/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 030409

Lucre 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 (90.73%) learnt to speak in childhood, 9.01% 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 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 7, 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)

13°57′04″S73°13′41″W / 13.95111°S 73.22806°W / -13.95111; -73.22806


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