title: Pira District
text: # Pira District
  
  Pira District is one of twelve districts of the province Huaraz 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 (83.20%) learnt to speak in childhood, 16.63% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
  
  