Paucar del Sara Sara is a province located in the south-eastern corner of the Ayacucho Region of Peru. It is one of eleven provinces that make up the region. The province reported a population of 10,610 inhabitants in the 2005 census. It is bounded to the north and west by the province of Parinacochas and to the south and east by the Arequipa Region. The capital of this province is the city of Pausa.
Geography
The highest mountain in the province is Sara Sara at 5,505 m (18,061 ft) on the border with the province of Parinacochas. Other mountains are listed below:[1]
The province extends over an area of 2,096.92 square kilometres (809.63 sq mi) and is divided into ten districts. The districts, with their capitals in parentheses, are:
The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (50.15%) learned to speak in childhood, 49.36% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]