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Vilque Willk'i
District
Main square in Vilque
Country	Peru
Region	Puno
Province	Puno
Capital	Vilque
Government
• Mayor	Juan Carlos Mendoza Castillo
Area
• Total	193.29 km (74.63 sq mi)
Elevation	3,860 m (12,660 ft)
Population
• Total	2,947
• Density	15/km (39/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	210115

Vilque District is one of fifteen districts of the province Puno in Peru. Vilque was the location of the major fair during the nineteenth century of goods from Bolivia and Argentina and especially for mules from Salta.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (75.26%) learnt to speak in childhood, 24.12% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

References

1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
2. Clements R. Markham, Travels in Peru and India. London: John Murray, 1862, 284-285.
3. inei.gob.pe Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

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