Leoncio Prado is one of eleven provinces of the Huánuco Region in Peru.
The capital of this province is the city of Tingo María.
The province was named after the Peruvian mariner Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez.
Spanish is the language which the majority of the population (91.42%) learnt to speak in childhood, 8.23% of the residents started speaking using the Quechua language (2007 Peru Census).
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