Quellouno District

Quelloúno Q'illu Unu
District
Interactive map of Quelloúno
Country	Peru
Region	Cusco
Province	La Convención
Founded	October 1, 1986
Capital	Quelloúno
Government
• Mayor	Cleto Edwin Cabrera Cortes
Area
• Total	799.68 km^2 (308.76 sq mi)
Elevation	800 m (2,600 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	16,469
• Density	20.594/km^2 (53.339/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	080906

Quelloúno (hispanicized spelling from Quechua Q'illu Unu, q'illu meaning yellow and unu meaning water,^[1] "yellow water") is one of ten districts of the La Convención Province in the Cusco Region in Peru.^[2]

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (50.98%) learnt to speak in childhood, 45.76% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).^[3]

References

1. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
2. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
3. 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)

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