Country Peru Province Huancané Capital Huatasani Elevation 3,830 m | Region Puno Founded June 21, 1967 Time zone PET (UTC-5) Area 106.7 km² | |
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Huatasani District is one of eight districts of the province Huancané in Peru.
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Map of Huatasani, Peru
Ethnic groups
The district straddles the Quechua and Aymara linguistic boundary with Aymara-speaking Huancane to the south and Quechua-speaking Putina to the north. Huatasani itself is predominantly Quechua speaking but contains both Quechua- and Aymara-speaking communities. Quechua is the language which 53.87% of the population learnt to speak in childhood, 28.84% of the residents started speaking using Aymara and 17.20% learnt Spanish as the first language (2007 Peru Census).
References
Huatasani District Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA