Laria District

Laria District is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica in Peru.[1]

Laria
District
Country Peru
RegionHuancavelica
ProvinceHuancavelica
FoundedJune 23, 1962
CapitalLaria
Government
 • MayorUrbano Cuicapuza Huamancaja
Area
 • Total78.45 km2 (30.29 sq mi)
Elevation
3,861 m (12,667 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total1,391
 • Density18/km2 (46/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO090109

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (64.37%) learnt to speak in childhood, 34.82% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: Are you being !!IMPURE!!?
gollark: Thus, NO chances unless it's random-seeded by its arguments only (can chicken do that?).
gollark: You said they had to be pure.
gollark: ALL are gollarious.
gollark: gollariosity wins UTTERLY, as long as nobody else uses the source argument and causes recursion.

See also

References
  1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 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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