Paratia District

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Paratia
District
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Puno
Province Lampa
Founded April 23, 1954
Capital Paratia
Government
 •  Mayor Apolonio Ezequiel Yareta Mamani
Area
 • Total 745.08 km2 (287.68 sq mi)
Elevation 4,390 m (14,400 ft)
Population (2005 census)
 • Total 4,960
 • Density 6.7/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone PET (UTC-5)
UBIGEO 210707

Paratia District is one of ten districts of the province Lampa in Peru. [1]

Districts of Peru third level administrative subdivision of Peru

The districts of Peru are the third-level country subdivisions of Peru. They are subdivisions of the provinces, which in turn are subdivisions of the larger regions or departments. There are 1,838 districts in total.

Lampa Province Province in Puno, Peru

Lampa province is a province of the Puno region in Peru. Its population is about 40,856. The capital is Lampa.

Peru republic in South America

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.

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Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below: [2]

Aqupukru mountain in Peru

Aqup'ukru is a 4,997-metre-high (16,394 ft) mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Puno Region, Lampa Province, Paratía District. Aqup'ukru is situated south of the mountain Yanawara, west of the lake Sayt'uqucha and southeast of the mountain Pachakutiq.

Awallani mountain in Peru

Awallani is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 4,800 metres (15,748 ft) high. It is located in the Puno Region, Lampa Province, on the border of the districts Paratía and Santa Lucía. Awallani lies between the mountains Phisqa Tira in the northeast and Pukasalla in the southwest.

Chunkara (Puno)

Chunkara is a mountain in the Sillapaka mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 m (16,404 ft) high. It is located in the Puno Region, Lampa Province, Paratia District, northeast of Sillapaka.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (91.83%) learnt to speak in childhood, 7.59% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). [3]

Indigenous peoples of the Americas Pre-Columbian inhabitants of North, Central and South America and their descendants

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the Pre-Columbian peoples of North, Central and South America and their descendants.

Quechua people ethnic group

Quechua people or Quecha people, may refer to any or all speakers of the Quechua languages, which originated among the indigenous people of South America. Most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, although there are some significant populations living in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.

Spanish language Romance language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

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Pachakutiq (Puno)

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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. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Lampa Province (Puno Region)
  3. ↑ 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)

Coordinates: 15°27′29″S70°36′27″W / 15.45806°S 70.60750°W / -15.45806; -70.60750

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