Marcará District

Marcará
Marcará
District
	Peru 2010
Country	Peru
Region	Ancash
Province	Carhuaz
Founded	October 6, 1905
Capital	Marcará
Government
• Mayor	Jorge Patricio Cruz Lazaro
Area
• Total	157.49 km2 (60.81 sq mi)
Elevation	2,726 m (8,944 ft)
Population (2005 census)
• Total	8,879
• Density	56/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	020606

Marcará District is one of eleven districts of the Carhuaz Province in Peru.^[1]

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The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (76.61%) learnt to speak in childhood, 23.08% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).^[2]

Ancash Quechua

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(in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
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inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish)

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(in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.

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inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish)

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