San Juan de Salinas District

San Juan de Salinas District is one of fifteen districts of the province Azángaro in Peru.[1]

San Juan de Salinas
District
Country Peru
RegionPuno
ProvinceAzángaro
FoundedNovember 21, 1908
CapitalSan Juan de Salinas
Government
 • MayorEdgar Inofuente Cari
Area
 • Total106 km2 (41 sq mi)
Elevation
3,840 m (12,600 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total3,823
 • Density36/km2 (93/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO210213

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (92.72%) learnt to speak in childhood, 6.99% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: Cities really should just actually allow higher-density stuff.
gollark: The more demand/less space thing is for land, though.
gollark: Weird. Why is that? If it's just labour and materials, which drives the most of the increase?
gollark: Also, less pollution.
gollark: I live in some random place in the middle of nowhere, and while that's generally annoying it means housing is cheap, if little else.

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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