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Platería
District
Platería and Lake Titicaca
Country	Peru
Region	Puno
Province	Puno
Founded	April 25, 1964
Capital	Plateria
Government
• Mayor	David Sosa Mamani
Area
• Total	240.63 km (92.91 sq mi)
Elevation	3,830 m (12,570 ft)
Population
• Total	8,835
• Density	37/km (95/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	210112

Platería District is one of fifteen districts of the province Puno in Peru.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Aymara descent. Aymara is the language which the majority of the population (79.17%) learnt to speak in childhood, 19.64% 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. 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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