Chinchero District is one of seven

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of the

Urubamba Province Urubamba Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The province is bounded to the north by the La Convención Province, to the east by the Calca Province, to the south by the Cusco Pr ...

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. It is the location for the proposed Chinchero International Airport, which would serve travelers to the

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Geography

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

Ethnic groups

The people that live in the district are mainly

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citizens of

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descent.

is the language which the majority of the population (81.49%) learnt to speak in childhood, 17.95% of the residents started speaking using the

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language ( 2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
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Climate

Chinchero has a dry-winter

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(

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: Cwc), that borders very closely on both a

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(

: ET), and a

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(

: BSk).

Notable residents

The anthropologists Ed and Chris Franquemont lived among the Chinchero people during the 1970s, studying traditional textile production techniques. Their daughter

Abby Franquemont Abigail M. Franquemont (born 1972) is an American textile crafts writer, lecturer and educator, based in Cusco, Peru. She spent her early childhood among the Quechua people of Chinchero, Peru, where "women spun to eat and pay for the home they l ...

, having spent her childhood within a spinning culture, later became a revivalist of

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with the

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.Abby Franquemont, ''Respect the Spindle, spin infinite yarns with one amazing tool'', Interweave (2009)

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