Túpac Amaru District

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Tupac Amaru
Tupaq Amaru
District
Location of the district Tupac Amaru in Canas.svg
Location of Tupac Amaru in the Canas province
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Cusco
Province Canas
Founded September 1, 1941
Capital Tungasuca
Government
 •  Mayor Honorato Ttito Quispe (2007)
Area
 • Total 117.81 km2 (45.49 sq mi)
Elevation 3,791 m (12,438 ft)
Population (2005 census)
 • Total 3,423
 • Density 29/km2 (75/sq mi)
Time zone PET (UTC-5)
UBIGEO 080508

Tupac Amaru District is one of eight districts in the Canas Province in Peru. Its seat is the village of Tungasuca.

Districts of Peru third level administrative subdivision of Peru

The districts of Peru are the third-level country subdivisions of Peru. They are subdivisions of the provinces, which in turn are subdivisions of the larger regions or departments. There are 1,838 districts in total.

Canas Province Province in Cusco, Peru

Canas Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru.

Peru republic in South America

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.

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Geography

One of the highest peaks of the district is Puka Kancha at approximately 4,400 m (14,400 ft). Other mountains are listed below: [1]

Tunka Suka mountain in Peru

Tunka Suka is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 4,000 m (13,000 ft) high. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canas Province, Tupac Amaru District. Tunka Suka lies west of a town of that name (Tungasuca) and southwest of the large lake named Tunka Suka Quta in Aymara.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (97.85%) learnt to speak in childhood, 1.72% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). [2]

Indigenous peoples of the Americas Pre-Columbian inhabitants of North, Central, and South America and their descendants

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the Pre-Columbian peoples of North, Central and South America and their descendants.

Quechua people ethnic group

Quechua people or Quecha peoples, may refer to any or all speakers of the Quechua languages, which originated among the indigenous peoples of South America. Most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, although there are some significant populations living in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.

Spanish language Romance language

Spanish or Castilian is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

Sources

  1. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe/ UGEL map Canas Province (Cusco Region)
  2. ↑ inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine . INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población

Coordinates: 14°09′25″S71°30′18″W / 14.1570°S 71.5049°W / -14.1570; -71.5049

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