Chaccho District

Chaccho
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Antonio Raymondi
Founded	October 26, 1964
Capital	Chaccho
Area
• Total	73.99 km^2 (28.57 sq mi)
Elevation	3,329 m (10,922 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	2,137
• Density	29/km^2 (75/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020303

Chaccho District is one of six districts of the Antonio Raymondi Province 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 (73.57%) learnt to speak in childhood, 25.88% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).^[2]

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

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