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Vilavila District

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Country
  
Peru

Province
  
Lampa

Capital
  
Vilavila

Area
  
156.6 kmĀ²

Region
  
Puno

Founded
  
May 2, 1854

Time zone
  
PET (UTC-5)

Elevation
  
4,300 m

Vilavila (in hispanicized spelling) or Wila Wila (Aymara wila red, blood-red, the reduplication signifies that there is a group or a complex of something, "a complex of red color") is one of ten districts of the province Lampa in Peru.

Contents

Map of Vilavilla, 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 (98.12%) learnt to speak in childhood, 1.25% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

References

Vilavila District Wikipedia