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Puno Province

Puno Province

Province in Puno, Peru

This article is about the Province of Puno. For its capital city, see Puno. For other uses, see Puno (disambiguation).

Puno is a province in the Puno Region, in southeastern Peru. It borders the provinces of Huancane, San Román, El Collao and the Moquegua Region's province of General Sánchez Cerro. Its capital is the city of Puno, which is located at the edge of Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake. It is the economic powerhouse of the region.

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Geography

Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:[1]

Political division

The province is divided into fifteen districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito):

Ethnic groups

The province is inhabited by indigenous citizens of Aymara and Quechua descent. Spanish is the language which the majority of the population (45.40%) learnt to speak in childhood, 27.67% of the residents started speaking using the Quechua language and 26.50% using Aymara (2007 Peru Census).[2]

See also

Sources

  1. [1]
    escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Puno Province 1 (Puno Region)
  2. [2]
    inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007

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