Marcará District
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Marcará
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| native_name_lang = es
| settlement_type = District
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| image_caption = Peru 2010
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| map_caption = Location of Marcará in the Carhuaz province
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| subdivision_type = Country
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| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = Ancash
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Carhuaz
| parts_type = Subdivisions
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| established_title = Founded
| established_date = October 6, 1905
| seat_type = Capital
| seat = Marcará
| leader_party =
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Jorge Patricio Cruz Lazaro
| unit_pref = Metric
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| area_total_km2 = 157.49
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| elevation_m = 2726
| population_footnotes =
| population_total = 8879
| population_as_of = 2005 census
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| timezone1 = PET
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Marcará District is one of eleven districts of the Carhuaz Province in Peru.{{in lang|es}} Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. [http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/ Banco de Información Distrital] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423164200/http://desa.inei.gob.pe/mapas/bid/ |date=2008-04-23 }}. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
Ethnic groups
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).[http://iinei.inei.gob.pe/iinei/RedatamCpv2007.asp?id=ResultadosCensales?ori=C inei.gob.pe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127005551/http://iinei.inei.gob.pe/iinei/RedatamCpv2007.asp?id=ResultadosCensales%3Fori%3DC |date=2013-01-27 }} INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish)
See also
References
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{{Districts of Ancash Region}}
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Category:Districts of the Carhuaz province
Category:Districts of the Department of Ancash
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