Mariscal Luzuriaga Province

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Mariscal Luzuriaga
Province
Looking west across a lake near Jarhuajara to the Cordillera Blanca

Coat of arms
Location of Mariscal Luzuriaga in the Ancash Region
Country Peru
Region Ancash
Capital Piscobamba

The Mariscal Luzuriaga Province (Spanish mariscal marshal) is one of 20 provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru. It was created by law 12541 on January 12, 1956 and named after the Peruvian marshal and Argentine general Toribio de Luzuriaga.

Since the Inca roads crossed its territory up to the Ecuador, where its capital Piscobamba is located now, there was a strategic tambo during the Inca's time.

Piscobamba, name that has a place origin, comes from pisqu pampa which means "bird plain" in Quechua. This place has a special attraction due to four mythical hills: Campanayuq, Aswaq], Amañico and Wankash. Bloody battles were performed here by the armies of the Inca Tupac Yupanqui and the conchucos,piscopampas and huaras. See Garcilaso: "Comentarios reales" .

Political division

Mariscal Luzuriaga is divided into eight districts, which are:

DISTRICT
Casca
Eleazar Guzman Barron
Fidel Olivas Escudero
Llama
Llumpa
Lucma
Musga
Piscobamba

Ethnic groups

The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (90.95%) learnt to speak in childhood, 8.51% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[1]

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ inei.gob.pe INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

Coordinates: 8°52′59″S 77°21′00″W / 8.88306°S 77.35000°W / -8.88306; -77.35000

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