Pacucha District

Pacucha
District
Pacucha Lagoon
Pacucha Lagoon
Interactive map of Pacucha
Country Peru
RegionApurímac
ProvinceAndahuaylas
FoundedAugust 21, 1963
CapitalPacucha
Government
 • MayorOscar Franco Navarro
Area
 • Total
170.39 km2 (65.79 sq mi)
Elevation
3,125 m (10,253 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
10,018
 • Density58.795/km2 (152.28/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO030209

Pacucha District is one of the nineteen districts of the province Andahuaylas in Peru.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (91.50%) learnt to speak in childhood, 8.15% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

See also

References

  1. ↑ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved April 4, 2008
  2. ↑ inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población

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