Paucartambo Province (from

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 ...

: Pawqar Tampu, meaning "colo(u)red '' tambo''") is one of thirteen

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in the

Cusco Region Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...

in the southern highlands of

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Boundaries

* North:

Madre de Dios Region Madre de Dios (, en, Mother of God) is a department and region in southeastern Peru, bordering Brazil, Bolivia and the Peruvian departments of Puno, Cusco and Ucayali, in the Amazon Basin. Its capital is the city of Puerto Maldonado. It is als ...

* East:

Quispicanchi Province Quispicanchi Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The Quispicanchi Province is bounded to the north by the Paucartambo Province and the Madre de Dios Region, to the east by the Pu ...

* South:

* West: Calca Province

Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:

Political division

The province is divided into six

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( es, distritos, singular: ), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: * Caicay ( Caicay) * Challabamba ( Challabamba) * Colquepata ( Colquepata) * Huancarani (Huancarani) * Kosñipata ( Pillcopata) *

Paucartambo Paucartambo may refer to: * Paucartambo Province, Cusco region * Paucartambo District, Paucartambo Paucartambo (from Quechua: Pawqar Tampu, meaning "colored '' tambo''") is one of six districts of the Paucartambo Province in Peru. Geography On ...

(

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Ethnic groups

The people in the province are mainly

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citizens of

ethnicity. According to the 2007 national census,

is the first language of the great majority of the population (85.56%); 13.51% of the residents learned

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as their first language (

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Sources

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

Boundaries

Geography

Political division

Ethnic groups

See also

Sources