en Tauria District

Tauria
Tauria
District
Country	Peru
Region	Arequipa
Province	La Unión
Founded	November 19, 1954
Capital	Tauria
Government
• Mayor	Efrain Guillermo Sanchez Medina
Area
• Total	314.68 km2 (121.50 sq mi)
Elevation	2,900 m (9,500 ft)
Population (2005 census)
• Total	357
• Density	1.1/km2 (2.9/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	040809

Tauria District is one of eleven districts of the province La Unión 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 (62.15%) learnt to speak in childhood, 37.54% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).^[2]

References

^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
^ 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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15°21′09″S 73°14′14″W / 15.3526°S 73.2373°W / -15.3526; -73.2373

[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] .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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