Mirgas District

Mirgas
District
Location of the Antonio Raymondi province in the Ancash region, in which Mirgas District is located
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Antonio Raymondi
Founded	October 26, 1964
Capital	Mirgas
Government
•  Mayor	Julio Rodriguez Sifuentes
Area
• Total	175.69 km2 (67.83 sq mi)
Elevation	3,175 m (10,417 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	5,595
• Density	32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020305

Mirgas District is one of six districts of the province Antonio Raymondi 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 (94.12%) learnt to speak in childhood, 5.70% 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 2008-04-17 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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