title: Palca District, Huancavelica
text: # Palca District, Huancavelica
  
  Palca District is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica 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 (70.33%) learnt to speak in childhood, 29.49% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
  
  