Sara Sara District

Sara Sara District is one of ten districts of the province Paucar del Sara Sara in Peru.[1]

Sara Sara
District
Sara Sara, the highest mountain of the district
Country	Peru
Region	Ayacucho
Province	Paucar del Sara Sara
Founded	January 2, 1985
Capital	Quilcata
Government
• Mayor	Pedro José Rivera Vizcardo
Area
• Total	79.58 km^2 (30.73 sq mi)
Elevation	3,300 m (10,800 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	791
• Density	9.9/km^2 (26/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	050810

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (55.66%) learnt to speak in childhood, 43.95% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

See also

• Parinaqucha
• Sara Sara

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 aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

Further reading

Reinhard, Johan (2005). The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. ISBN 0-7922-6838-5.