Marcará District

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Marcará
District
Country  Peru
Region Ancash
Province Carhuaz
Founded October 6, 1905
Capital Marcará
Government
 • Mayor Jorge Patricio Cruz Lazaro
Area
 • Total 157.49 km2 (60.81 sq mi)
Elevation 2,726 m (8,944 ft)
Population (2005 census)
 • Total 8,879
 • Density 56/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone PET (UTC-5)
UBIGEO 020606

Marcará District is one of eleven districts of the province Carhuaz in Peru.[1]


Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (76.61%) learnt to speak in childhood, 23.08% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ (Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
  2. ↑ inei.gob.pe INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish)


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