Chinchero District is one of seven districts of the Urubamba Province in Peru . The town of Chinchero is the capital of the district. It is the location for the proposed Chinchero International Airport , which would serve travelers to the Cusco Region .
3-498: One of the highest peaks of the district is Hatun Luychu at approximately 4,400 m (14,400 ft). Other mountains are listed below: The people that live in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (81.49%) learnt to speak in childhood, 17.95% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language ( 2007 Peru Census ). Chinchero has
6-524: A dry-winter subpolar oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cwc ), that borders very closely on both a tundra climate ( Köppen climate classification : ET ), and a cold semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification : BSk ). The anthropologists Ed and Chris Franquemont lived among the Chinchero people during the 1970s, studying traditional textile production techniques. Their daughter Abby Franquemont , having spent her childhood within
9-483: A spinning culture, later became a revivalist of hand spinning with the spindle . This Cusco Region geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hatun Luychu Hatun Luychu ( Quechua hatun big, luychu deer, "big deer (mountain)", Hispanicized names Jatumiuicho, Jatumluicho ) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru , about 4,400 metres (14,436 ft) high. It lies in
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