La Mar Province is a

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in the north-east corner of the

Ayacucho Region Ayacucho () is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path known as ...

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. It was created on March 30, 1861.

Geography

One of the highest mountains of the province is

Rasuwillka Rasuwillka (Quechua, hispanicized spelling ''Rasuhuilca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Ayacucho Region, Lucanas Province, Chipao District, and in the Sucre Province Sucre Province is a Provinces of Per ...

at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:

Political division

The province is divided into ten districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde). The districts, with their capitals in parentheses, are: *

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( Chiquintirca) * Ayna (

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) * Chilcas ( Chilcas) * Chungui ( Chungui) *

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(

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) * San Miguel ( San Miguel) *

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(

) * Samugari ( Palmapampa) * Tambo ( Tambo) * Anchihuay ( Anchihuay)

Ethnic groups

The people in the province are mainly

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.

is the language which the majority of the population (82.96%) learnt to speak in childhood, 16.58% of the residents started speaking using the

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language (

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INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

Archaeology

Some of the most important archaeological sites of the province are K'allapayuq Urqu and

Waraqu Urqu Waraqu Urqu (Quechua ''waraqu'' cactus, ''urqu'' mountain, "cactus mountain", also spelled ''Waraju Orqo, Waraqo Orqo'') is an archaeological site in the Ayacucho Region in Peru. The Chanka site lies in the La Mar Province, in the west of the ...

References

External links

*
Municipal website
Provinces of the Ayacucho Region 1861 establishments in Peru {{Ayacucho-geo-stub