Chinchero District is one of seven

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 Urubamba Province in Peru. It is the location for the proposed

Chinchero International Airport Chinchero International Airport is an under construction international airport in the town of Chinchero District, Cusco Region, Perú. It is planned to replace Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport. Its altitude will be above sea leve ...

, which would serve travelers to 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 ...

Geography

One of the highest peaks of the district is

Hatun Luychu Hatun Luychu (Quechua ''hatun'' big, ''luychu'' deer, "big deer (mountain)", Hispanicized names ''Jatumiuicho, Jatumluicho'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It lies in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, on the border of the di ...

at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:

Ethnic groups

The people that live in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (81.49%) learnt to speak in childhood, 17.95% 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 ...

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INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

Climate

Chinchero has a dry-winter subpolar oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification: Cwc), that borders very closely on both a tundra climate ( Köppen climate classification: ET), and a cold semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification: BSk).

Notable residents

The anthropologists Ed and Chris Franquemont lived among the Chinchero people during the 1970s, studying traditional textile production techniques. Their daughter Abby Franquemont, having spent her childhood within a spinning culture, later became a revivalist of

hand spinning Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. It was only with the i ...

with the spindle.Abby Franquemont, ''Respect the Spindle, spin infinite yarns with one amazing tool'', Interweave (2009)

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