Cuenca District, Huancavelica

Cuenca District
District
Country	Peru
Region	Huancavelica
Province	Huancavelica
Founded	August 17, 1920
Capital	Cuenca
Government
• Mayor	Hugo Barra Huarocc
Area
• Total	50.25 km^2 (19.40 sq mi)
Elevation	3,167 m (10,390 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	2,669
• Density	53/km^2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	090105

Cuenca District is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica 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 (64.01%) learnt to speak in childhood, 35.65% 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 Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 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)

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