The Urcos District is one of the twelve districts in the

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 ...

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. Created on January 2, 1857, its capital is the town of

Urcos Urcos is a small town in eastern Peru, capital of the province Quispicanchi in the region Cusco. It is home to a small lake and ruins. Some time in the 15th Century, it is said that Hatun Tupaq Inca received visions of the Incan creator deity ...

. The closest airport is the TBP Airport (Tumbes Pedro Canga), which is located about north-east of Urcos. Urcos is southeast of the former Inca capital, Cusco, in the southern Andes, and it is at an altitude of .

Geography

The most important river of the district is the Willkanuta which crosses the district from south-east to north-west. A lake named

Quyllur Urmana Quyllur Urmana (Quechua ''quyllur'' star, ''urmana'' trap / ''urmay'' to fall, ''-na'' a suffix, hispanicized and mixed spellings ''Coyllor Urmana, Qoillur Urmana, Qoyllor Urmana, Qoyllur Urmana'') is a lake in Peru located in the Cusco Region, Qu ...

lies in the west of the town at the foot of Wiraqucha. One of the highest peaks of the district is Quri 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 (54.58%) learnt to speak in childhood, 45.03% 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, Can ...

language ( 2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe
INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

References

* Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática

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