San Miguel de Aco District

San Miguel de Aco Aqu
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Founded	December 7, 1953
Capital	Aco
Government
•  Mayor	Tomas Severiano Gutierrez Lliuya
Area
• Total	133.89 km2 (51.70 sq mi)
Elevation	2,925 m (9,596 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	2,353
• Density	18/km2 (46/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020608

Location of the province Carhuaz in the Ancash region in Peru.

San Miguel de Aco District is one of eleven districts of the Carhuaz 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 (96.98%) learnt to speak in childhood, 2.90% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). ^[2]

See also

• Ancash Quechua

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 apredió hablar (in Spanish)

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