Paucas District

Paucas
District
A view of the district from the point of Cerro San Cristóbal
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Huari
Founded	May 10, 1955
Capital	Paucas
Government
•  Mayor	Robert Pompeo Benites Meza
Area
• Total	135.31 km2 (52.24 sq mi)
Elevation	3,421 m (11,224 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	2,214
• Density	16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	021010

Paucas District is one of sixteen districts of the Huari Province 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 (80.66%) learnt to speak in childhood, 19.19% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). ^[2]

See also

• Kunkush
• Ututu Punta

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. 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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