Chucuito is a province of the Puno Region in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital , Retrieved December 29, 2007 The capital of the province is the city of Juli.
History Chucuito is cited by Comentarios Reales de los Incas. On the 1st chapter of the 3rd book of Comentarios reales de los incas, Chucuito is mentioned because of huge monuments and anthropomorphic statues.Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios reales de los incas, Lisbona 1609 . The Aramu Muru monument is located in the province.
Geography One of the highest elevations of the province is Chuqi Patilla at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL maps of the province of Chucuito, Puno Region
Languages According to the 2007 census, Aymara was spoken by 72.4% of the population as their first language, while 26.8% spoke Spanish, 0.6% spoke Quechua, 0.1% spoke Asháninka, 0.0% spoke other indigenous languages and 0.0% spoke foreign languages.
Political division The province measures and is divided into seven districts:
District Mayor Capital Ubigeo Juli Justo Apaza Delgado Juli 210401 Desaguadero Desaguadero 210402 Huacullani Jaime Musaja Chipana Huacullani 210403 Kelluyo Demetrio Salamanca Choque Kelluyo 210404 Pisacoma Nestor Jaime Chino Coaquira Pisacoma 210405 Pomata Mario Calani Morales Pomata 210406 Zepita Mateo Jilaja Mollo Zepita 210407
See also Parinaquta Quraquta Q'axilu Tanqa Tanqa
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