Turpay District

Turpay District Distrito de Turpay
District
Coordinates: 14°13′08″S72°37′26″W / 14.219°S 72.624°W / -14.219; -72.624
Country	Peru
Region	Apurímac
Province	Grau
Founded	February 28, 1958
Capital	Turpay
Government
•  Mayor	Simon Camposano Quispe
Area
• Total	52.34 km2 (20.21 sq mi)
Elevation	3,440 m (11,290 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	831
• Density	16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	030711

Turpay District is one of the fourteen districts of the province Grau 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 (70.67%) learnt to speak in childhood, 29.20% 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 Digital Archived 2010-05-01 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved April 7, 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)