Caracoto District

Caracoto District is one of four districts of the province San Román in Peru.[1]

Caracoto
District
Country Peru
RegionPuno
ProvinceSan Román
CapitalCaracoto
Government
 • MayorFredy Hector Silva Mamani
Area
 • Total285.87 km2 (110.38 sq mi)
Elevation
3,825 m (12,549 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total7,570
 • Density26/km2 (69/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO211104

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (80.26%) learnt to speak in childhood, 18.67% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: ... nobody is enforcing that, some things are just hard and/or undesired.
gollark: I suppose it's reasonable to just blame other people's different preferences and the high capital cost of phone manufacturing rather than just "the market" but meh.
gollark: I want a phone which doesn't look terrible, but I also don't care that much about aesthetics and want something cheap, durable, and functional, and apparently the market doesn't want to provide that.
gollark: Great, *more* expensive pointless designs.
gollark: I mean, anyone behind you could see what's on the screen, and you wouldn't be able to see stuff against some backgrounds.

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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