Socos District

Socos District is one of fifteen districts of the province Huamanga in Peru.[1]

Socos
District
Country Peru
RegionAyacucho
ProvinceHuamanga
FoundedJune 14, 1968
CapitalSocos
Government
 • MayorEdgar Cristan Meneses
Area
 • Total81.75 km2 (31.56 sq mi)
Elevation
3,400 m (11,200 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total7,454
 • Density91/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO050112

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (95.47%) learnt to speak in childhood, 4.31% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: Hide a specific dragon.
gollark: Hide **from** scroll.
gollark: Then maybe a hide from scroll option would make more sense?
gollark: Seriously, why can you not sort other peoples' scrolls? It's weird and annoying.
gollark: I'll just abandon the idea of a sort-by-breed group.

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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