Asillo District

Asillo District is one of fifteen districts of the province Azángaro in Peru.[1]

Asillo
District
Country Peru
RegionPuno
ProvinceAzángaro
CapitalAsillo
Government
 • MayorJosé Ludgardo Torres Sucari
Area
 • Total392.38 km2 (151.50 sq mi)
Elevation
3,909 m (12,825 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total18,725
 • Density48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO210204

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (81.57%) learnt to speak in childhood, 17.94% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: In that case, pigeon neck armour.
gollark: 🦀 praise our pigeon overlords 🦀
gollark: I, for one, submit to our pigeon overlords.
gollark: > they'd pick up on switching being better, tooThey might just insist that the obvious mathematical answer is right and refuse to update.
gollark: Correction: they made the pigeons press buttons which dispensed food.

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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