Quelloúno
Q'illu Unu
District
Country Peru
RegionCusco
ProvinceLa Convención
FoundedOctober 1, 1986
CapitalQuelloúno
Government
 • MayorCleto Edwin Cabrera Cortes
Area
 • Total799.68 km2 (308.76 sq mi)
Elevation
800 m (2,600 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total16,469
 • Density21/km2 (53/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO080906

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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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)

12°37′35″S 72°41′33″W / 12.6263°S 72.6924°W / -12.6263; -72.6924

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