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Huatasani
District
Country	Peru
Region	Puno
Province	Huancané
Founded	June 21, 1967
Capital	Huatasani
Government
• Mayor	Miguel Condori Condori
Area
• Total	106.73 km (41.21 sq mi)
Elevation	3,830 m (12,570 ft)
Population
• Total	2,912
• Density	27/km (71/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	210603

Huatasani District is one of eight districts of the province Huancané in Peru.

Ethnic groups

The district straddles the Quechua and Aymara linguistic boundary with Aymara-speaking Huancane to the south and Quechua-speaking Putina to the north. Huatasani itself is predominantly Quechua speaking but contains both Quechua- and Aymara-speaking communities. Quechua is the language which 53.87% of the population learnt to speak in childhood, 28.84% of the residents started speaking using Aymara and 17.20% learnt Spanish as the first language (2007 Peru Census).

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 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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