Canas Province is one of thirteen
provinces in the
Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...
in the southern highlands of
Peru
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Geography
The
La Raya mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:
[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Canas Province and the Melgar Province (Puno Region)]
Political division
The province is divided into eight
districts
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( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are:
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Checca (
Checca)
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Kunturkanki (
El Descanso
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
)
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Langui (
Langui)
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Layo (
Layo)
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Pampamarca (
Pampamarca)
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Quehue (
Quehue)
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Túpac Amaru (
Tungasuca
Tunka Suka (Aymara ''tunka'' ten, ''suka'' furrow, "ten furrows", hispanicized spelling ''Tunga Suca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canas Province
Canas Province is one of thirteen provinc ...
)
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Yanaoca (
Yanaoca)
Ethnic groups
The people in the province are mainly
indigenous citizens of
Quechua descent.
Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (91.62%) learnt to speak in childhood, 8.13% of the residents started speaking in
Spanish.
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See also
* Tupay Tuqtu Tupay Tuqtu (Quechua ''tupay'' to crash, to collide, ''tuqtu'' broody hen)Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is a festival held annually on February 2 at the mountain Tu ...
References
Provinces of the Cusco Region
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