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Vilcas Huamán Province is a province in the eastern part of the Ayacucho Region in Peru.
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Map of Vilcas Huam%C3%A1n Province, Peru
Boundaries
Political division
The province is divided into eight districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are:
Ethnic groups
The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (89.62%) learnt to speak in childhood, 10.06% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
References
Vilcas Huamán Province Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA