Usicayos | |
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District | |
Country | |
Region | Puno |
Province | Carabaya |
Founded | May 2, 1854 |
Capital | Usicayos |
Government | |
• Mayor | Paul William Sotomayor Guerra |
Area | |
• Total | 644.04 km2 (248.67 sq mi) |
Elevation | 3,778 m (12,395 ft) |
Population (2005 census) | |
• Total | 9,757 |
• Density | 15/km2 (39/sq mi) |
Time zone | PET (UTC-5) |
UBIGEO | 210310 |
Usicayos District is one of ten districts of the Carabaya Province in Peru. [1]
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.
Carabaya Province is a province of the Puno Region in the southern part of Peru. It is bounded on the north by the Madre de Dios Region, on the east by the Sandia Province, on the south by the provinces of Azángaro, Melgar and Putina and on the west by the Cusco Region. The capital of the province is the city of Macusani.
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.
One of the highest elevations of the district is Ch'uspini at approximately 5,000 m (16,000 ft). Other mountains are listed below: [2]
Ch'uspini is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high. It is situated in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, on the border of the districts Coasa and Usicayos. Ch'uspini lies northeast of the mountain Hatun Pinkilluni.
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (96.96%) learnt to speak in childhood, 2.84% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). [3]
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the Pre-Columbian peoples of North, Central and South America and their descendants.
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 or Castilian is a 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.
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Coordinates: 14°07′35″S69°58′04″W / 14.12639°S 69.96778°W
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