title: Tirapata District
text: # Tirapata District
  
  Tirapata District is one of fifteen districts of the province Azángaro in Peru.
  
  ## Ethnic groups
  
  The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (83.23%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.13% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
  
  