Vilque District

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Vilque

| native_name = Willk'i

| native_name_lang = es

| settlement_type = District

| image_skyline = Vilque Plaza Principal.jpg

| image_alt =

| image_caption = Main square in Vilque

| image_flag =

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| mapsize = frameless

| map_alt =

| map_caption = Location of Vilque in the Puno Province

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Peru}}

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Puno

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Puno

| parts_type = Subdivisions

| parts_style = para

| p1 =

| established_title = Founded

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| seat_type = Capital

| seat = Vilque

| leader_party =

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Juan Carlos Mendoza Castillo

| unit_pref = Metric

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 193.29

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| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 3860

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 2947

| population_as_of = 2005 census

| population_density_km2 = auto

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| timezone1 = PET

| utc_offset1 = -5

| blank_name_sec1 = UBIGEO

| blank_info_sec1 = 210115

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Vilque District is one of fifteen districts of the province Puno 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. Vilque was the location of the major fair during the nineteenth century of goods from Bolivia and Argentina and especially for mules from Salta.Clements R. Markham, Travels in Peru and India. London: John Murray, 1862, 284-285.