Marcará District

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

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

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

• Ancash Quechua
• Paqtsarahu
• Paqtsaruri
• Pumapampa
• Qaqapampa
• Qupa

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. 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 apredió hablar (in Spanish)