Pomabamba District

Pomabamba (Quechua Pumaq pampa, pumaq cougar, pampa large plain, "cougar plain") is the largest of 4 districts in the Pomabamba Province of the Ancash Region 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 (76.16%) learnt to speak in childhood, 23.62% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).