Chucuito District
Chucuito District is one of the districts of the Puno Province in the Puno Region in Peru.
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Aymara descent. Aymara is the language which the majority of the population (73.54%) learnt to speak in childhood, 23.71% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
Images
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Phallus-shaped stone sculptures at Inka Uyu
See also
References
- ^ (in Spanish) Municipalidad Distrital Chucuito, Municipalidad Distrital de Chucuito Archived 2007-10-15 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved November 9, 2007.
- ^ 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 aprendió hablar (in Spanish)
External links
- (in Spanish) www.munichucuito.gob.pe Official district web site
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