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Yunga District

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Country
  
Peru

Province
  
General Sánchez Cerro

Capital
  
Yunga

Region
  
Moquegua

Founded
  
March 19, 1965

Elevation
  
3,571 m (11,716 ft)

Yunga District is one of eleven districts of the province General Sánchez Cerro 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 (73.38%) learnt to speak in childhood, 24.98% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

References

Yunga District Wikipedia