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Vilcas Huamán Province
Vilcas Huamán (from Quechua Willka Waman) is a province in the eastern part of the Ayacucho Region in Peru. Boundaries *North: Huamanga Province *East: Apurímac Region *South: Sucre Province *West: Cangallo Province and Víctor Fajardo Province Geography One of the highest mountains of the province is Hatun Rumi at approximately . Other mountains are listed below: Political division The province is divided into eight districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: * Vilcas Huamán (Vilcashuamán Vilcashuamán or Vilcasguaman (from Quechua Willka Waman, "sacred hawk") is the capital of Vilcas Huamán Province, Ayacucho region, Peru. It is located at an altitude of 3,490 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes. It is located on an ancient ar ...) * Accomarca (Accomarca) * Carhuanca * Concepción * Huambalpa * Independencia * Saurama * Vischongo (Vischongo) Ethnic ...
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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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Carhuanca District
Carhuanca District is one of eight districts of the province Vilcas Huamán in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (83.83%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.90% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (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 Viviend ...).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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Pumaqucha (Ayacucho)
Lake Pomacocha (possibly from Quechua ''puma'' cougar, puma, ''qucha'' lake, "puma lake") is a lake 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 ... located in the Ayacucho Region, Vilcas Huamán Province.escale.minedu.gob.pe - Map of the Vilcas Huamán Province (Ayacucho Region) at a height of about 3,300 m. It is situated southwest of the town of Vischongo. Pomacocha is 0.86 km long and 0.17 km at its widest point. The archaeological site called Inti Watana or Pomacocha lies at its shore. See also * List of lakes in Peru * Titankayuq * Usnu References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Pomacocha (Ayacucho) Lakes of Peru Lakes of Ayacucho Region ...
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Pukara, Vilcas Huamán
Pukara (Quechua for fortress)Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) 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 ... located in the Ayacucho Region, Vilcas Huaman Province, in the south of the Concepción District, near Antap'iti ''(Antapite)''. It is situated at a height of about on top of the mountain Pukara ''(Pucará)''. This place is also interesting as a natural viewpoint. References Archaeological sites in Ayacucho Region Archaeological sites in Peru Mountains of Ayacucho Region Mountains of Peru {{SouthAm-archaeology-stub ...
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Inti Watana, Ayacucho
Inti Watana, Intiwatana ( Quechua, hispanicized spelling ''Intihuatana'') or Pumaqucha (Quechua ''puma'' cougar, puma, ''qucha'' lake, "puma lake", hispanicized spellings ''Pomaccocha, Pomacocha, Pumacocha'') is an archaeological site in Peru. It is located in the Ayacucho Region, Vilcas Huamán Province Vilcas Huamán (from Quechua Willka Waman) is a province in the eastern part of the Ayacucho Region in Peru. Boundaries *North: Huamanga Province *East: Apurímac Region *South: Sucre Province *West: Cangallo Province and Víctor Fajardo Prov ..., Vischongo District, at the lake Pumaqucha ().mincetur.gob.pe
"Complejo Arqueológico De Pumacocha O Intiwatana", retrieved on February 9, 2014
escale.minedu.gob.pe - Map of the Vilcas Huamán Province (Ayacucho Region) The site ...
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Usnu, Ayacucho
Usnu ( Quechua for altar / a special platform for important celebrations,Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 also spelled ''Ushno'') is an archaeological site in Peru. It is located in the Ayacucho Region, Vilcas Huamán Province, Vilcas Huamán District, in the town Vilcashuamán Vilcashuamán or Vilcasguaman (from Quechua Willka Waman, "sacred hawk") is the capital of Vilcas Huamán Province, Ayacucho region, Peru. It is located at an altitude of 3,490 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes. It is located on an ancient ar ....mincetur.gob.pe
"Ushno", pirámide ceremonial, retrieved on January 31, 2014
The site was declared a National Cultural Heritage ''(Patrimonio Cultural)'' of Peru on April 11, 2000.
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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 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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Vischongo District
Vischongo District is one of eight districts of the Vilcas Huamán Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest mountains of the district is Hatun Rumi at approximately . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent (mostly Chanka). Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (83.00%) learnt to speak in childhood, 16.54% 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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Saurama District
Saurama District is one of eight districts of the province Vilcas Huamán in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (96.32%) learnt to speak in childhood, 3.68% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (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 Viviend ...).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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