title: Santa María del Valle District
text: # Santa María del Valle District
  
  Santa María del Valle District is one of twelve districts of the province Huánuco 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 (63.16%) learnt to speak in childhood, 36.47% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
  
  