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Quinua District 
Summary
Quinua District is one of fifteen districts of the province Huamanga in Peru.[1]
Quinua
Kinwa | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Peru |
| Region | Ayacucho |
| Province | Huamanga |
| Capital | Quinua |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Otilia Martha Chavez Gutierrez |
| Area | |
| • Total | 145.63 km2 (56.23 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,396 m (11,142 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 5,881 |
| • Density | 40/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
| UBIGEO | 050108 |
Ethnic groups edit
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (87.00%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.76% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]
Climate edit
| Climate data for La Quinua (elevation 3,215 m (10,548 ft), 1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 18.6 (65.5) |
18.1 (64.6) |
17.8 (64.0) |
18.4 (65.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
18.1 (64.6) |
17.8 (64.0) |
18.7 (65.7) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.6 (67.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
19.0 (66.2) |
18.7 (65.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 7.1 (44.8) |
7.1 (44.8) |
7.0 (44.6) |
6.5 (43.7) |
5.3 (41.5) |
4.0 (39.2) |
3.4 (38.1) |
4.0 (39.2) |
5.7 (42.3) |
6.6 (43.9) |
6.8 (44.2) |
6.7 (44.1) |
5.9 (42.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 129.3 (5.09) |
149.3 (5.88) |
123.2 (4.85) |
41.7 (1.64) |
20.5 (0.81) |
5.8 (0.23) |
12.5 (0.49) |
12.9 (0.51) |
34.5 (1.36) |
50.7 (2.00) |
62.7 (2.47) |
112.7 (4.44) |
755.8 (29.77) |
| Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru[3] | |||||||||||||
See also edit
References edit
- ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
- ^ inei.gob.pe Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)
- ^ "Normales Climaticás Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
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