Huatasani District

Huatasani District is one of eight districts of the province Huancané in Peru.

[1] The district straddles the Quechua and Aymara linguistic boundary with Aymara-speaking Huancane to the south and Quechua-speaking Putina to the north.

Huatasani itself is predominantly Quechua speaking but contains both Quechua- and Aymara-speaking communities.

Quechua is the language which 53.87% of the population learnt to speak in childhood, 28.84% of the residents started speaking using Aymara and 17.20% learnt Spanish as the first language (2007 Peru Census).

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