Ajoyani District
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Ajoyani District is one of ten
districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
of the province Carabaya in
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.


Geography

The Kallawaya mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below:


Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of
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descent.
Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...
is the language which the majority of the population (81.53%) learnt to speak in childhood, 18.08% of the residents started speaking using the
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language (
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INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)


References

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