world.wikisort.org - Peru

Search / Calendar

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]

This article is about the district in the Lambayeque Region, Peru. For the district in the Cusco Region, Peru, see Inkawasi District. For other uses, see Inka Wasi.
Incahuasi
Inkawasi
District
Church of Incahuasi during a procession
Country Peru
RegionLambayeque
ProvinceFerreñafe
FoundedFebruary 17, 1951
CapitalIncahuasi
Government
 • MayorWilliam Hidalgo Manayay Manayay
(2019-2022)
Area
 • Total443.91 km2 (171.39 sq mi)
Elevation
3,078 m (10,098 ft)
Population
 (2017)
 • Total13,858
 • Density31/km2 (81/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO140203

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)

This Lambayeque Region geography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e



Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии