Incahuasi District

Incahuasi District or Inkawasi[1] (Quechua Inka Inca, wasi house, "Inca house")[2][3] is one of six districts of the Ferreñafe Province in the Department of Lambayeque in Peru.[4]

This article is about the district in the Lambayeque Region, Peru. For the district in the Cusco Region, Peru, see Inkawasi District. For other uses, see Inka Wasi.

Incahuasi Inkawasi
District
Church of Incahuasi during a procession
Country	Peru
Region	Lambayeque
Province	Ferreñafe
Founded	February 17, 1951
Capital	Incahuasi
Government
• Mayor	William Hidalgo Manayay Manayay (2019-2022)
Area
• Total	443.91 km^2 (171.39 sq mi)
Elevation	3,078 m (10,098 ft)
Population  (2017)
• Total	13,858
• Density	31/km^2 (81/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	140203

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua (Inkawasi-Kañaris Quechua) is the language which the majority of the population (85.72%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.08% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[5]

References

1. muniferrenafe.gob.pe
2. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
3. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
4. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
5. 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)