Claim: Yauyos Province, a province located in the Lima Region of Peru and home to the small ethnic minority who speak the indigenous Jaqaru/Kawki language, has a population of 28,000 inhabitants as of 2002.
Evidence: The Yauyos Province is a province located in the Lima Region of Peru. The province has a population of 28,000 inhabitants as of 2002. One distinctive cultural trait of the province is that the Tupe district is home to the small ethnic minority who speak the indigenous Jaqaru/Kawki language, a linguistic curiosity as the only surviving relative of Aymara, spoken far to the south in the Altiplano.