Sara Sara District

Sara Sara District is one of ten districts of the province Paucar del Sara Sara in Peru.[1]

Sara Sara
District
Sara Sara, the highest mountain of the district
Country Peru
RegionAyacucho
ProvincePaucar del Sara Sara
FoundedJanuary 2, 1985
CapitalQuilcata
Government
 • MayorPedro José Rivera Vizcardo
Area
 • Total79.58 km2 (30.73 sq mi)
Elevation
3,300 m (10,800 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total791
 • Density9.9/km2 (26/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO050810

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (55.66%) learnt to speak in childhood, 43.95% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: You're going to need very big groups to keep modern-or-better technology in production, though.
gollark: Fires work, but aren't very good compared to electric lighting.
gollark: > I explained medicine...You did not explain how you're meant to produce medicine without much/any technology.> communication + human interaction I also explained with internet 2That is just a fibre network. You need to produce hardware somehow.> lighting is also explained. Ever heard of a fire?Fires are inefficient and bad.
gollark: Shelter, medicine, communication, lighting, human social interaction, etc.
gollark: There are things other than those which matter? Also, subsistence farming is kind of no?

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)

Further reading

Reinhard, Johan (2005). The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. ISBN 0-7922-6838-5.

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