Curahuasi District is one of the nine districts of the Abancay Province in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Digital . Retrieved April 4, 2008.

Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Q'illu Q'asa at approximately . Other mountains are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe/ UGEL map Abancay Province (Apurimac Region)

Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent, although with a sizable percentage of mestizo and castizo population located mainly in the urban center.

Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (73.79%) learnt to speak in childhood, 25.86% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

Climate

See also Apurímac River

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