Quishuar District

This article is about the district in the Huancavelica Region, Peru. For other uses, see Kiswar (disambiguation).

Quishuar District is one of sixteen districts of the province Tayacaja in Peru.^[1]

Quishuar Kiswar
District
Country	Peru
Region	Huancavelica
Province	Tayacaja
Founded	March 6, 1957
Capital	Quishuar
Government
• Mayor	José Rodolfo Acevedo Segura
Area
• Total	31.54 km2 (12.18 sq mi)
Elevation	3,130 m (10,270 ft)
Population  (2005 census)
• Total	1,023
• Density	32/km2 (84/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO	090713

Its Quechua name kiswar is the name of the tree Buddleja incana.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly Indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (87.40%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.60% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).^[2]