Puquio

Puquio is a town of Peru. Its name comes from the Quechua word for a spring of water, and it is the capital of Lucanas Province in the Ayacucho region. The City Population register treats it as a single urban locality (a centro poblado) in the Ayacucho department. City Population, which tabulates results of Peru's national statistics institute INEI, counts 12,982 residents at the 22 October 2017 census, 11,956 at the 2007 census, 9,958 at the 1993 census. Its calculated figure for 30 June 2022 is 13,100. It is one of the Peruvian cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants that the same page lists by department, where the census columns are counts and the 2022 column is a calculation made from adjusted census figures and INEI district projections.