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Huanca Sancos Province
Huanca Sancos is a province in central Ayacucho, Peru. On April 3, 1983, Shining Path terrorists entered the town of Lucanamarca and killed 69 people. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Political division The province extends over an area of and is divided into four districts. * Sancos ( Huanca Sancos) * Carapo ( Carapo) * Sacsamarca ( Sacsamarca) * Santiago de Lucanamarca (Lucanamarca) Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (80.79%) learnt to speak in childhood, while 18.72% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... language ( 2007 Peru Census).
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Provinces Of Peru
The provinces of Peru () are the second-level administrative subdivisions of the country. They are divided into Districts of Peru, districts ( es, distritos, links=no). There are 196 provinces in Peru, grouped into 25 Regions of Peru, regions, except for Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average of seven provinces per region. The region with the fewest provinces is Callao (one) and the region with the most is Ancash Region, Ancash (twenty). While provinces in the sparsely populated Amazon rain forest of eastern Peru tend to be larger, there is a large concentration of them in the north-central area of the country. The province with the fewest districts is Purús Province, with just one district. The province with the most districts is Lima Province, with 43 districts. The most common number of districts per province is eight; a total of 29 provinces share this number of districts. Provinces table The table below shows all provinces with their capit ...
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Carapo District
Carapo District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Wayta Wayta at . Other mountains are listed below: * Misa Rumi * Parya Muqu * Pincha Urqu * Qala Qala * Urqu Pata Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (84.37%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.46% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... language ( 2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
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Q'illumayu
Q'illumayu (Quechua ''q'illu'' yellow, ''mayu'' river, "yellow river", hispanicized spelling ''Ccuellumayo'') which upstream is called Churmi and Allawqa Wayq'u ''(Allauja Huayjo)'' is a river in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, in the provinces Huanca Sancos and Victor Fajardo. It is an affluent of the Qaracha River which ends in the Pampas River.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huancasancos Province (1) (Ayacucho Region) Q'illumayu originates in or near the lake Wachuwaq'asa ''(Huacoajasa)'' which lies in the east of the Sacsamarca District. Its direction is mainly to the north and later to the northwest. The confluence with the Qaracha River is in the Carapo District Carapo District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Wayta Wayta at . Other mountains are listed below: * Misa Rumi * Parya Muqu * Pincha Urqu * Qala Qala * Urq ..., southeast of the lake Tiyu Qucha ''(Tiyo Ccocha)''. ...
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Ñawpallaqta, Huanca Sancos
Ñawpallaqta or Ñawpa Llaqta (Quechua '' ñawpa'' ancient, ''llaqta'' place (village, town, city, country, nation),Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "ancient place", Hispanicized and mixed spellings ''Ñaupallacta, Ñaupallaqta'') is an archaeological site in Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy f .... It lies in the Ayacucho Region, Huanca Sancos Province, Carapo District.mincetur.gob.pe
"Complejo arqueológico de Ñaupallaqta", retrieved on January 28, 2014
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Kinwaqucha (Ayacucho)
Kinwaqucha (Quechua ''kinwa'' quinoa, ''qucha'' lake, "quinoa lake", also spelled ''Ccuenhua Cocha, Cuenhuacocha'') is a lake in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, Huanca Sancos Province, Sacsamarca District. Kinwaqucha lies northeast of the village of Kinwa Khuchu ("quinoa corner", also spelled ''Ccuenhuacucho''), also named Kinwa Wayq'u ("quinoa stream", ''Cenhuahuaycco''), and the small lake named Pukaqucha '("red lake", Pucacocha). The Kinwa Wayq'u ''(Ccuenhuaycco)'' originates near the lake. Its waters flow to the Q'illumayu Q'illumayu (Quechua ''q'illu'' yellow, ''mayu'' river, "yellow river", hispanicized spelling ''Ccuellumayo'') which upstream is called Churmi and Allawqa Wayq'u ''(Allauja Huayjo)'' is a river in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, in the province ... (Quechua for "yellow river"). References Lakes of Peru Lakes of Ayacucho Region {{Ayacucho-geo-stub ...
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2007 Peru Census
The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivienda (Eleventh Population and Sixth Household Census). The previous census performed in Peru was the 2005 Census, the following census was the 2017 Peru Census. Population by region See also *Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) References External links * {{Official website, http://censos.inei.gob.pe/cpv2007/tabulados/ Censuses in Peru Demographics of Peru 2007 in Peru Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...
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Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ...
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Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ...
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Quechua People
Quechua people (, ; ) or Quichua people, may refer to any of the aboriginal people of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru. Although most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, there are some significant populations in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina. The most common Quechua dialect is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa. The Quechua word for a Quechua speaker is ''runa'' or ''nuna'' ("person"); the plural is ''runakuna'' or ''nunakuna'' ("people"). "Quechua speakers call themselves Runa -- simply translated, 'the people.'" Some historical Quechua people are: * The Chanka people, who lived in the Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Apurímac regions of Peru. * The Huanca people of the Junín Region of Peru, who spoke Quechua before the Incas did. * The Inca, who established the largest empire of the pre-Columbian era. * T ...
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Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are, but many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. While some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions, the Indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies, and empires. Some had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by Indigenous peoples; some countries have ...
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Santiago De Lucanamarca District
Santiago de Lucanamarca District is one of four districts of the province Huanca Sancos in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Parya at . Other mountains are listed below: The largest lake of the district is Qalla Qucha on the border with the Sancos District. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (95.22%) learnt to speak in childhood, 4.38% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)


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