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Melgar Province is a province of the Puno Region in Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Ayaviri.GeographyThe Willkanuta range and the La Raya range traverse the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:Political divisionThe province measures and is divided into nine districts:Ethnic groupsThe people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (70.54%) learnt to speak in childhood, 29.09% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language and 0.23% using Aymara (2007 Peru Census).