Santiago de Pupuja District

Santiago de Pupuja District is one of fifteen districts of the province Azángaro in Peru.[1]

Santiago de Pupuja
District
Country	Peru
Region	Puno
Province	Azángaro
Capital	Santiago de Pupuja
Government
• Mayor	Jaime Roger Yapo Arapa
Area
• Total	301.27 km^2 (116.32 sq mi)
Elevation	3,860 m (12,660 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	6,640
• Density	22/km^2 (57/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	210214

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (94.87%) learnt to speak in childhood, 4.69% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

References

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