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Quellouno District

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Country
  
Peru

Founded
  
October 1, 1986

Time zone
  
PET (UTC-5)

Elevation
  
800 m

Province
  
La Convención Province

Region
  
Cusco

Capital
  
Quelloúno

UBIGEO
  
080906

Area
  
799.7 km²

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Quelloúno (hispanicized spelling from Quechua Q'illu Unu, q'illu yellow, unu water, "yellow water") is one of ten districts of the La Convención Province in the Cusco Region in Peru.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (50.98%) learnt to speak in childhood, 45.76% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

References

Quellouno District Wikipedia