Soraya District

Soraya District is one of the seventeen districts of the province Aymaraes in Peru.[1]

Soraya
District
Country Peru
RegionApurímac
ProvinceAymaraes
FoundedJanuary 2, 1857
CapitalSoraya
Government
 • MayorOscar Onton Quillama
Area
 • Total43.56 km2 (16.82 sq mi)
Elevation
2,870 m (9,420 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total879
 • Density20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO030413

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (79.31%) learnt to speak in childhood, 20.00% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

gollark: AAAAA PLEASE NO
gollark: Dragging is fine. But NO hovery stuff.
gollark: Please do not use mouse_move or you will condemn us all to an eternity of suffering.
gollark: And the majority of servers probably don't support it right now.
gollark: Hovery UIs are annoying and fiddly, it runs into irritating edge cases if you have multiple players on one computer, and it's bad for performance.

References
  1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 7, 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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