Macari District is one of nine
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
Melgar Province in
Peru. The capital of the district is
Macari.
Limits
*Nort:
Layo District
Layo District is one of eight districts in the Canas Province in Peru. The seat of the Layo District is the village Layo.
Geography
The La Raya mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed be ...
*South:
Cupi District
Cupi District is one of nine districts of the province Melgar in Peru.
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (88.00%) learnt to ...
*East:
Chuquibambilla
*West:
Cusco Department
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a regions of Peru, department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Department of Madre de Dios, Madre de Dios, Department of Ucayali, Ucayali, and Depar ...
Geography
One of the highest peaks of the district is
Qillqa at . Other mountains are listed below:
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly
indigenous citizens of
Quechua descent.
Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (84.25%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.55% 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 ...
).
inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)
References
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