Uco District

Uco
District
Interactive map of Uco
Country Peru
RegionAncash
ProvinceHuari
CapitalUco
Government
 • MayorTeodoro Tarazona Principe
Area
 • Total
53.61 km2 (20.70 sq mi)
Elevation
3,336 m (10,945 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
1,648
 • Density30.74/km2 (79.62/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO021016
Part of the Uco district (C.P. Uco and the San Cristobal hill) seen from the northwest slope of the Jirca Mission (Huacachi district).

Uco District is one of sixteen districts of the Huari Province 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 (58.85%) learnt to speak in childhood, 40.80% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

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 aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

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