Ataquero District

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

Ataquero
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Founded	December 14, 1934
Capital	Carhuac
Government
• Mayor	Fermín Jaime Gutiérrez Mendoza (2019-2022)
Area
• Total	47.22 km^2 (18.23 sq mi)
Elevation	2,719 m (8,921 ft)
Population  (2017)
• Total	1,469
• Density	31/km^2 (81/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020605

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (87.77%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.16% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

See also

• Ancash Quechua

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 apredió hablar (in Spanish)