Paucar del Sara Sara Province is a

province 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 ou ...

located in the south-eastern 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 is one of eleven provinces that make up the region. The province has a population of 10,610 inhabitants 2005 census. It is bounded to the north and west by the

Parinacochas Province The Parinacochas Province is a province located in the Ayacucho Region of Peru. It is one of the eleven that make up that region. The province has a population of 24,028 inhabitants as of 2002. The capital of the province is Coracora. Boundaries ...

and to the south and east by the

Arequipa Region Arequipa ( ay, Ariqipa; qu, Ariqipa) is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least ...

. The capital of this province is the city of Pausa.

Geography

The highest mountain in the province is

Sara Sara Sara Sara is a volcano lying between Lake Parinacochas and the Ocoña River in Peru. It is situated in the Parinacochas Province and the Paucar del Sara Sara Province. The volcano formed during the Pleistocene during four different stages of ...

at on the border to the

. Other mountains are listed below:

Political division

The province extends over an area of and is divided into ten districts. The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: *

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(

* Corculla ( Corculla) * Lampa ( Lampa) * Marcabamba ( Marcabamba) * Oyolo ( Oyolo) * Pararca ( Pararca) * Pausa ( Pausa) * San Javier de Alpabamba ( San Javier de Alpabamba) * San José de Ushua ( San José de Ushua) * Sara Sara District ( Qilcata)

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

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descent.

is the language which the majority of the population (50.15%) learnt to speak in childhood, 49.36 % of the residents started speaking using the

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language ( 2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

Sources

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

Geography

Political division

Ethnic groups

See also

Sources