Paucar del Sara Sara province

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Paucar del Sara Sara
Province
Sara Sara Volcano.jpg
Sara Sara, the highest mountain in the province
Location of the province Paucar del Sara Sara in Ayacucho.svg
Location of Paucar del Sara Sara in the Ayacucho Region
Country Peru
Region Ayacucho
Capital Pausa
Government
 • MayorJosé Felix Rosenthal Quispe
Area
 • Total
2,096.92 km2 (809.63 sq mi)
Population
 • Total
10,610
 • Density5.1/km2 (13/sq mi)
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Paucar del Sara Sara is a province located in the south-eastern corner of the Ayacucho Region of Peru. It is one of eleven provinces that make up the region. The province reported a population of 10,610 inhabitants in the 2005 census. It is bounded to the north and west by the province of Parinacochas and to the south and east by the Arequipa Region. The capital of this province is the city of Pausa.

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Geography

The highest mountain in the province is Sara Sara at 5,505 m (18,061 ft) on the border with the province of Parinacochas. Other mountains are listed below: [1]

Political division

The province extends over an area of 2,096.92 square kilometres (809.63 sq mi) and is divided into ten districts. The districts, with their capitals in parentheses, are:

Ethnic groups

The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (50.15%) learned to speak in childhood, 49.36% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). [2]

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the province of Paucar del Sara Sara (Ayacucho Region)
  2. ↑ inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

15°16′47″S73°20′45″W / 15.27972°S 73.34583°W / -15.27972; -73.34583


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