Cayara District is one of twelve districts of the province Víctor Fajardo in Peru.

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

Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (88.63%) learnt to speak in childhood, 10.73% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

[2] In 1988, during Peru's internal conflict, the military killed 39 residents of the district in the Cayara massacre.

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