Aparicio Pomares District

Aparicio Pomares District is one of eight districts of the province Yarowilca in Peru.[1]

Aparicio Pomares
District
Country Peru
RegionHuánuco
ProvinceYarowilca
FoundedJanuary 2, 1857
CapitalChupan
Government
 • MayorAlfredo Angel Isidro Silvestre
Area
 • Total183.14 km2 (70.71 sq mi)
Elevation
3,416 m (11,207 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total8,993
 • Density49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO101104

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (78.14%) learnt to speak in childhood, 21.48% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: I mean, you'd have to fit all your prayers into a few minutes if the day was that short.
gollark: And if you're in (the) (Ant)[Aa]rctic(a), you run into similar problems because of the broken daynight cycle.
gollark: And prayers take place at certain times of day, which of course causes problems with no real day/night cycle available.
gollark: For example, you are required to pray facing the Mecca. How do you do this while in orbit of Earth? You need some sort of complex gyroscopic chair to face you in the right direction.
gollark: Islam is one of the less cool religions, because it adapts poorly to space travel.

See also

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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