Quechua
Lands
Andean highlands and valleys of Peru and Bolivia, with Quechua communities also in Argentina and Chile
Facts 3
Population
Peru's Ministry of Culture reports that 5,179,774 people nationwide feel or consider themselves part of the Quechua peoples.
As of 2017 Source: Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios, Quechuas | BDPI (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
Peru's Ministry of Culture lists Quechua as a vital language, and the 2017 census counted 3,805,531 people who learned to speak it in childhood.
As of 2017 Source: Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios, Quechuas | BDPI (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Culture
Each year four Quechua-speaking communities in Peru's southern Andes rebuild the Q'eswachaka rope bridge over the Apurímac River with Inca techniques. UNESCO recognized it in 2013.
As of 2013 Source: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Knowledge, skills and rituals related to the annual renewal of the Q'eswachaka bridge (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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