Quishuar District is one of sixteen districts of the province Tayacaja in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
Its Quechua name kiswar is the name of the tree Buddleja incana.
Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly Indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (87.40%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.60% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).inei.gob.pe INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)
History The Quishuar district was created on March 6, 1957, by law No.12816, during the government of President Manuel Prado Ugarteche.
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