Carhuaz Province

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Carhuaz[1]
Province
Awkishqucha
Location of Carhuaz[3] in the Ancash Region
Country Peru
Region Ancash
Capital Carhuaz
Government
  Mayor Oscar Roosevelt Cerna Gomez (2007)
Website www.municarhuaz.gob.pe

The Carhuaz Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region of Peru.

Political division

Carhuaz is divided into eleven districts, which are:

DISTRICT MAYOR
Acopampa Julian Victor Chavez Graza
Amashca Leoncio Jaime Cadillo Chapeton
Anta Miguel Oswaldo Antunez Castillo
Ataquero Eber Tito Gutierrez Vazques
Carhuaz Oscar Roosevelt Cerna Gomez
Marcará Jorge Patricio Cruz Lazaro
Pariahuanca Zenobio Gregorio Mendez Aguirre
San Miguel de Aco Tomas Severiano Gutierrez Lliuya
Shilla Juan Felix Puntillo Limas
Tinco Simeon Alejandro Rodriguez Rojas
Yungar Julio Constantino Robles Ramirez

Ethnic groups

The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (73.27%) learnt to speak in childhood, 26.47% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[4]

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Coordinates: 9°04′01″S 77°49′01″W / 9.067°S 77.817°W / -9.067; -77.817

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