Capaya District

Capaya
District
Country	Peru
Region	Apurímac
Province	Aymaraes
Founded	January 12, 1956
Capital	Capaya
Government
• Mayor	Vitaliano Julian Arbieto Roldan
Area
• Total	77.75 km^2 (30.02 sq mi)
Elevation	3,290 m (10,790 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	738
• Density	9.5/km^2 (25/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	030402

Capaya District is one of the seventeen districts of the province Aymaraes 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 (50.73%) learnt to speak in childhood, 48.98% 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 April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 7, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

14.119°S 73.318°W / -14.119; -73.318