Carhuaz District

Carhuaz District is one of eleven districts of the province Carhuaz in the Ancash Region of Peru.[1] Its seat is Carhuaz.

Carhuaz Qarwa
District
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Capital	Carhuaz
Government
• Mayor	Oscar Roosevelt Cerna Gomez
Area
• Total	194.62 km^2 (75.14 sq mi)
Elevation	2,638 m (8,655 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	13,615
• Density	70/km^2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020601

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (67.23%) learnt to speak in childhood, 32.60% 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)