The Dos de Mayo Province (literally ''May 2'') is one of eleven

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

of the

Huánuco Region Huánuco (; qu, Wanuku) is a city in central Peru. It had a population of 196,627 as of 2017 and in 2015 it had a population of 175,068. It is the capital of the Huánuco Region and the Huánuco District. It is the seat of the diocese of Huán ...

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. The capital of this province is the city of La Unión.

Boundaries

*North:

Huamalíes Province The Huamalíes Province is one of eleven provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru. The capital of this province is the city of Llata. Boundaries *North: Huacaybamba Province *East: Leoncio Prado Province *South: Dos de Mayo Province *West: Ancas ...

*East:

Leoncio Prado Province The Leoncio Prado Province is one of eleven provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru. The capital of this province is the city of Tingo María. The province was named after the Peruvian mariner Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez. Boundaries *North: San ...

*South:

Huánuco Province The Huánuco Province is one of 11 provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Huánuco. History Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Political division The p ...

Yarowilca Province The Yarowilca Province is the smallest of eleven provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru. The capital of this province is Chavinillo. Boundaries *North: Dos de Mayo Province *East: Huánuco Province *South: Lauricocha Province *West: Dos de Mayo ...

and

Lauricocha Province Lauricocha Province is one of 11 provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru. The capital of the province is Jesús. The province is found at high elevations in the Andes. The highest elevation in the province is snow-capped Yerupaja peak with an ...

*West:

Ancash Region Ancash ( qu, Anqash; es, Áncash ) is a department and region in northern Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital i ...

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:

Political division

The province is divided into nine districts, which are: * Chuquis * La Unión * Marías * Pachas * Quivilla * Ripán * Shunqui * Sillapata * Yanas

Ethnic groups

The province is inhabited by

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...

citizens of

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 ...

descent.

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 ...

, however, is the language which the majority of the population (59.82%) learnt to speak in childhood, 39.87% of the residents started speaking using the

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References

Provinces of the Huánuco Region {{Huánuco-geo-stub

Boundaries

Geography

Political division

Ethnic groups

See also

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