Carabaya Province is a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of the
Puno Region
Puno () is a department and region in southeastern Peru. It is the fifth largest department in Peru, after Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the departments of Madre de Dios on the north, Cusco ...
located in the southern part of
Peru
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. It is bounded on the north by the
Madre de Dios Region, on the east by the
Sandia Province, on the south by the provinces of
Azángaro,
Melgar and
Putina and on the west by the
Cusco Region. The capital of the province is the city of
Macusani.
Geography
The province is traversed by the
Willkanuta and
Kallawaya
The Kallawaya are an indigenous group living in the Andes of Bolivia. They live in the Bautista Saavedra Province and Muñecas Province of the La Paz Department but are best known for being an itinerant group of traditional healers that t ...
mountain ranges. Some of the highest peaks of the province are
Allin Qhapaq,
Ch'ichi Qhapaq and
Pumanuta. Other mountains are listed below:
Ariquma Lake,
Wiluyuq Qucha and
Sayt'uquta belong to the largest lakes of the province.
Political division
The province measures and is divided into ten districts:
Ethnic groups
The people in the province are mainly
indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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citizens of
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
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descent.
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
is the language which the majority of the population (84.12%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.14% of the residents started speaking using the
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
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language and 0.62%
Aymara
Aymara may refer to:
Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
(
2007 Peru Census).
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INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007
See also
* Chawpiqucha
* Chichakuri
* Ch'uxñaquta
* Inambari River
* Kimsaqucha
* Parinaquta
* Saytuqucha (Coasa)
* Yawarmayu
References
External links
*
Official website
Provinces of the Puno Region
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