Incahuasi District

Incahuasi District or Inkawasi[1] (Quechua Inka Inca, wasi house, "Inca house")[2][3] is one of six districts of the Ferreñafe Province in the Department of Lambayeque in Peru.[4]

Incahuasi Inkawasi
District
Church of Incahuasi during a procession
Country	Peru
Region	Lambayeque
Province	Ferreñafe
Founded	February 17, 1951
Capital	Incahuasi
Government
• Mayor	William Hidalgo Manayay Manayay (2019-2022)
Area
• Total	443.91 km^2 (171.39 sq mi)
Elevation	3,078 m (10,098 ft)
Population  (2017)
• Total	13,858
• Density	31/km^2 (81/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	140203

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua (Inkawasi-Kañaris Quechua) is the language which the majority of the population (85.72%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.08% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[5]

References

1. muniferrenafe.gob.pe
2. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
3. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
4. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
5. inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)