Rapayan District

Rapayan
District
Rapayan District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Huari
Founded	September 16, 1952
Capital	Rapayan
Government
•  Mayor	Berino Olortegui Urbano
Area
• Total	143.34 km2 (55.34 sq mi)
Elevation	3,238 m (10,623 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	1,742
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	021013

Rapayan 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 (62.95%) learnt to speak in childhood, 36.18% 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 2008-04-23 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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