Alcamenca District

Alcamenca District is one of twelve districts of the province Víctor Fajardo in Peru.[1]

Alcamenca
District
Country Peru
RegionAyacucho
ProvinceVíctor Fajardo
FoundedJanuary 9, 1936
CapitalAlcamenca
Government
 • MayorEdwin Luciano Campos Cisneros
Area
 • Total125.11 km2 (48.31 sq mi)
Elevation
3,200 m (10,500 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total1,974
 • Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO051002

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (93.45%) learnt to speak in childhood, 6.30% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

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gollark: Their thing wasn't connecting to the network, so they used the autothingy, and it turned on WiFi, which Windows had apparently randomly turned off.
gollark: You know, once the windows autodiagnostic tool for network connections DID work for my friend.
gollark: And yet you use Windows. Curious.
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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 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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