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Antabamba District

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Country
  
Province
  
Time zone
  
PET (UTC-5)

Elevation
  
3,636 m

Region
  
Apurímac

Capital
  
Antabamba

UBIGEO
  
030301

Area
  
603.8 km²

Antabamba (in hispanicized spelling) or Antapampa (Quechua anta copper, pampa plain, "copper plain") is one of the seven districts of the Antabamba Province in Peru.

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Geography

The Wansu mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are listed below:

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (69.83%) learnt to speak in childhood, 29.36% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

References

Antabamba District Wikipedia


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