Sivia District is located in the

Huanta Province Huanta Province is the northernmost of the eleven provinces in the Ayacucho region in Peru. The capital of the Huanta province is the city of Huanta. History In the colonial era, Huanta province was larger than it is currently, with traditional ...

in 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 ...

of Peru. The district was created by "legislative decree" 25845 on November 6, 1992. Its capital,

Sivia Sivia is a town in central Peru, capital of the Sivia District in Huanta Province, Ayacucho Region. It is on the west bank of the Apurímac River, about from the town of Pichari, capital of the Pichari District, La Convención Province, Cusc ...

, is located at an altitude of 551 m. The district had a population of 11,956 inhabitants as of the 2007 census, with an area of .

Capital

Sivia is the capital of the district with a 2010 population of 6,000 inhabitants, according to INEI 2007 Census it had only 3,319 inhabitants, this growth is due to migration receives from the Andean part of the Ayacucho Region those in search of better opportunities for development have been established in the city of Sivia.

Geography

One of the highest peaks of the district is Allpa Chaka at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:

Ethnic groups

The people in the district 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 (67.11%) learnt to speak in childhood, 32.68% of the residents started speaking using the

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, Cana ...

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

External links

INEI district information bank
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