Cachimayo District is one of nine districts of the province Anta in Peru.

[1] The district is named after the Kachimayu (Quechua for "salt river") which crosses the district from west to east.

[2] The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.

Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (50.34%) learnt to speak in childhood, 49.41% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

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