Sangarará District is one of seven
districts
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of the province
Acomayo
Acomayo (Quechuan languages, Quechua: Aqumayu) is a Peru, Peruvian city, the capital of the Acomayo District, district of the same name and also of the Acomayo Province, located in the Department of Cuzco, Department of Cusco.
Population
It had ...
in
Peru
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.
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly
indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology)
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citizens of
Quechua
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*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
descent.
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
is the language which the majority of the population (88.11%) learnt to speak in childhood, 11.20% of the residents started speaking using the
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
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 Vivie ...
).
inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población
References
Districts of the Acomayo province
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