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Coracora
Coracora or Qura Qura is a town in central Peru, and it is the capital of the Parinacochas Province in the Ayacucho Region. It has a population of approximately 13,000. Etymology Coracora or Qura Qura comes from the Quechuan ''qura'' meaning herbaceous plant, the reduplication of the syllable indicates that there is a group or a complex of something, "a complex of herbaceous plants". Location Coracora is located 800 km from Lima, Peru at an altitude between 3,150 and 3,350 meters above sea level, known as the Quechua ecological region. The city of Coracora is the capital of the Parinacochas Province. It forms part of the department of Ayacucho and is located in the southwestern region of Peru. The districts that form the Parinacochas Province are: Coracora, Upahuacho, Pacapauza, Rivacayco, Chumpi, Incuyo, Pullo and Anizo. Climate The winter season between June and September has frequent frosts, and the temperate and very rainy summer falls between December an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coracora District
Coracora District is one of eight districts of the Parinacochas Province in Peru. Geography Some of the highest elevations of the district are Suparawra at and Q'illu Urqu at approximately , both on the border with the Upahuacho District Upahuacho District is one of eight districts of the Parinacochas Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Q'illu Urqu at . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainl .... Other mountains are listed below: History For a detailed account of the history of this city (up to c. 1951) 'La Monografia de la Provincia de Parinacochas' is a very good source. The two volume book details not only historical, but cultural information."La Monografia de la Provincia de Parinacochas", OCLC RECORD19319571/ref> See also * Parququcha * Tipiqucha References External links {{coord, 14, 41, 38, S, 74, 07, 27, W, region:PE_type:city_source:kolossus-eswiki, displa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parinacochas Province
The Parinacochas Province is a province located in the Ayacucho Region of Peru. It is one of the eleven that make up that region. The province has a population of 24,028 inhabitants as of 2002. The capital of the province is Coracora. Boundaries *North: Apurímac Region *East: Paucar del Sara Sara Province *South: Arequipa Region *West: Lucanas Province Geography The highest mountain in the province is Sara Sara at on the border to the Paucar del Sara Sara Province. Other mountains are listed below: Political division The province extends over an area of and is divided into eight districts: *Coracora * Chumpi * Coronel Castañeda * Pacapausa * Pullo * Puyusca * San Francisco de Ravacayco * Upahuacho Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (54.94%) learnt to speak in childhood, 44.60% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Cens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayacucho Region
Ayacucho () is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path known as the internal conflict in Peru. A referendum was held on 30 October 2005, in order to decide whether the department would merge with the departments of Ica and Huancavelica to form the new Ica-Ayacucho-Huancavelica Region, as part of the decentralization process in Peru. The proposal failed and no merger was carried out. Political division The department is divided into 11 provinces ( es, provincias, singular: ''provincia''), which are composed of 111 districts (''distritos'', singular: ''distrito''). Provinces The provinces, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: # Cangallo ( Cangallo) # Huamanga (Ayacucho) # Huanca Sancos ( Huanca Sancos) # Huanta (Huanta) # La Mar ( San Miguel) # Lucanas (Puquio) # Parinacochas ( Coracora) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Peru
The provinces of Peru () are the second-level administrative subdivisions of the country. They are divided into Districts of Peru, districts ( es, distritos, links=no). There are 196 provinces in Peru, grouped into 25 Regions of Peru, regions, except for Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average of seven provinces per region. The region with the fewest provinces is Callao (one) and the region with the most is Ancash Region, Ancash (twenty). While provinces in the sparsely populated Amazon rain forest of eastern Peru tend to be larger, there is a large concentration of them in the north-central area of the country. The province with the fewest districts is Purús Province, with just one district. The province with the most districts is Lima Province, with 43 districts. The most common number of districts per province is eight; a total of 29 provinces share this number of districts. Provinces table The table below shows all provinces with their capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Falcon
Abraham Falcón García (1924-2016) was a Peruvian luthier who made classical guitars. He was born on 16 March 1924 in Coracora, Ayacucho. From a young age, his life was focused on agricultural activities to help his family. In 1946, Falcón made the first "Falcón's guitar", an instrument made of guarango (a piece of beautiful wood he had found near Palpa's river). His company, Guitarras Falcón, is now located in Lima, Peru. During his 70-year guitar-making career, he achieved several awards including placing third in the World Classical Guitar Luthier Competition in Paris, France in 1987 (XV Rencontres Internacionales de la Guitare) He is considered the most accomplished Peruvian luthier of the 20th century. Falcón's guitars have been used by many renowned Classical guitarists throughout the world as well as Andean and Criollo Criollo or criolla (Spanish for creole) may refer to: People * Criollo people, a social class in the Spanish race-based colonial caste system (the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pumawiri
Pumawiri (Hispanicized spelling ''Pumahuiri'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Ayacucho Region, Parinacochas Province, Coracora District Coracora District is one of eight districts of the Parinacochas Province in Peru. Geography Some of the highest elevations of the district are Suparawra at and Q'illu Urqu at approximately , both on the border with the Upahuacho District Upa .... References Mountains of Peru Mountains of Ayacucho Region {{Ayacucho-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pumahuiri
Pumawiri (Hispanicized spelling ''Pumahuiri'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Ayacucho Region, Parinacochas Province, Coracora District Coracora District is one of eight districts of the Parinacochas Province in Peru. Geography Some of the highest elevations of the district are Suparawra at and Q'illu Urqu at approximately , both on the border with the Upahuacho District Upa .... References Mountains of Peru Mountains of Ayacucho Region {{Ayacucho-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uña Del Pulgar
Uña is a municipality located in the province of Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...), the municipality has a population of 138 inhabitants. References Municipalities in the Province of Cuenca {{Cuenca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upahuacho District
Upahuacho District is one of eight districts of the Parinacochas Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Q'illu Urqu at . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (90.78%) learnt to speak in childhood, 8.87% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... language ( 2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retama
''Retama'' (also known as ''rotem'', he, רותם) is a genus of flowering bushes in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the broom tribe, Genisteae. ''Retama'' broom bushes are found natively in North Africa, the Levant and some parts of southern Europe. ''Retama raetam'' and ''Retama monosperma'' have white flowers, while ''Retama sphaerocarpa'' has yellow flowers. It remains an open question in taxonomy whether the members of the genus ''Retama'' should be incorporated into the genus ''Genista'' (see Genisteae). The species contain cytisine, a toxic alkaloid. In the Spanish language the name ''retama'' is commonly used for broom bushes in general, including the genus ''Retama''. Taxonomy The genus ''Retama'' was erected in 1838 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, the genus name being derived from the Arabic name. Rafinesque noted that the genus had been included in other genera, including ''Spartium'', ''Cytisus'' and ''Genista'', but he regarded it as distinct. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashlar
Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruvius as opus isodomum, or less frequently trapezoidal. Precisely cut "on all faces adjacent to those of other stones", ashlar is capable of very thin joints between blocks, and the visible face of the stone may be quarry-faced or feature a variety of treatments: tooled, smoothly polished or rendered with another material for decorative effect. One such decorative treatment consists of small grooves achieved by the application of a metal comb. Generally used only on softer stone ashlar, this decoration is known as "mason's drag". Ashlar is in contrast to rubble masonry, which employs irregularly shaped stones, sometimes minimally worked or selected for similar size, or both. Ashlar is related but distinct from other stone masonry that is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cusco
Cusco, often spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu ()), is a city in Southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region and of the Cusco Province. The city is the list of cities in Peru, seventh most populous in Peru; in 2017, it had a population of 428,450. Its elevation is around . The city was the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish conquest. In 1983, Cusco was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO with the title "City of Cuzco". It has become a major tourist destination, hosting nearly 2 million visitors a year. The Constitution of Peru (1993) designates it as the Historical Capital of Peru. Spelling and etymology The indigenous name of this city is . Although the name was used in Southern Quechua, its origin is found in the Aymara language. The word is derived from the phrase ('rock of the owl'), related to the city's foundation myth of the Ayar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
