title: Matacoto District
text: # Matacoto District
  
  Matacoto District is one of eight districts of the Yungay Province 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 (78.33%) learnt to speak in childhood, 21.10% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
  
  