title: Fidel Olivas Escudero District
text: # Fidel Olivas Escudero District
  
  Fidel Olivas Escudero District is one of eight districts of the Mariscal Luzuriaga Province in Peru.
  
  ## History
  
  The district is named after Bishop Fidel Olivas Escudero.
  
  ## Ethnic groups
  
  The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (97.11%) learnt to speak in childhood, 2.61% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
  
  