Yanama District is one of eight
districts
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of the
Yungay Province
The Yungay Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru.
Geography
The Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra traverse the province. Waskaran, the highest elevation of Peru, lies on the border to the Carhuaz Province. C ...
in
Peru
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.
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly
indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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*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.
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 ...
is the language which the majority of the population (87.35%) learnt to speak in childhood, 11.36% 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)
See also
* Kiswar
* Pirámide
* Pukarahu
Santa Cruz, Pucaraju, Pukaraju (possibly from Quechua ''puka'' red, ''rahu'' snow, ice, mountain with snow) or Pico de Huaylas (Spanish for "peak of Huaylas") is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru; within Santa Cruz Distri ...
* Tuqtupampa
Tuctubamba or Tuqtubamba (possibly from Quechua ''tuqtu'' broody hen, ''pampa'' a large plain, "broody hen plain") is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru. It is situated in the Ancash Region, at the border of the Mariscal Lu ...
* Yanaphaqcha
Yanapaccha (possibly from Quechua ''yana'' black, ''phaqcha'' waterfall, "black waterfall") is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Ancash Region, Yungay Province, in the districts Yanama a ...
* Yanarahu (Ruriqucha)
* Yanarahu (Yanama-Yungay)
Yanarrajo (possibly from Quechua ''yana'' black, ''rahu'' snow, ice, mountain with snow, "black snow peak" is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Ancash Region, Yungay Province, in the dist ...
References
Districts of the Yungay Province
Districts of the Ancash Region
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