Qaqapampa
Jacabamba (possibly from Quechua ''qaqa'' rock, ''pampa'' a large plain, "rock plain") is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru. It is situated in the Ancash Region, Asunción Province, Chacas District, in the Carhuaz Province, Marcará District, and in the Huari Province, Huari District. Jacabamba lies between mount Copap to the north and Chinchey Chinchey, also known as Rurichinchay, is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the region of Ancash, most precisely between the districts of Aco (in Carhuaz Province), Independencia (in Huaraz Province), ... to the south. Lake Rurichinchay lies at its feet. The rivers Jacabamba and Rurichinchay originate on the east side of the mountain and flow to the south-west. They belong to the watershed of the Marañón River. References Mountains of Peru Mountains of Ancash Region {{Ancash-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chacas District
Chacas is a district of the province Asunción in the Ancash Region of Peru. Its seat is Chacas. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the district. Some of the highest peaks of the district are Wallqan and Yanarahu. 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 (72.01%) learnt to speak in childhood, 26.42% of the residents started speaking Spanish (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish) See also * *[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Asunción Province
Asunción Province is one of the 20 provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru, one of the smallest provinces of the region. It is located in the heart of the central highlands of the region, on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Blanca, in the eastern area of the Ancash Region at a distance of 121 km from the city of Huaraz, the capital of the region, and 521 km from the city of Lima, the capital of Peru. Chacas, the capital of the province, is located about 3,350 m high in the midst of extremely rugged terrain. The province is bounded to the north by the Yungay Province, to the east by the Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald Province and the Huari Province, and to the south and west by the Carhuaz Province. Political Division Asunción is divided into two Districts of Peru, districts, the Acochaca District and the Chacas District. Geography Asunción Province has a land area of 528.66 km² which represents 1.47% of the territory of the Ancash Region. Chacas District has an are ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Carhuaz Province
The Carhuaz Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region of Peru. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the province. Waskaran, its highest elevation, lies on the border to the Yungay Province. Pallqarahu, Pukaranra, Qupa, Tuqllarahu, Wallqan and Yanarahu belong to the highest peaks of the province. Other mountains are listed below: Political division Carhuaz is divided into eleven districts, which are: * Acopampa * Amashca * Anta * Ataquero * Carhuaz * Marcará * Pariahuanca * San Miguel de Aco * Shilla * Tinco * Yungar Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (73.27%) learnt to speak in childhood, 26.47% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Huari Province
The Huari Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru. Its seat is Huari. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the western part of the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are Rurichinchay and Wantsan. Other mountains are listed below: Political division Huari is divided into sixteen districts, which are: * Anra * Cajay * Chavín de Huantar * Huacachi * Huacchis * Huachis * Huantar * Huari * Masin * Paucas * Ponto * Rahuapampa * Rapayan * San Marcos * San Pedro de Chana * Uco Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (78.05%) learnt to speak in childhood, 21.49% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language ( 2007 Peru Census). Archaeological sites The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chavín de Huantar is the most famous archaeological site of the province. Another remarkable p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Huari District
Huari is one of the 16 districts that integrates the Peruvian Huari Province in the Ancash region. The district consists of the city of Huari, 15 small villages and 22 annexes. History Tradition says that Huari was founded by Juán Huarín. The foundation corresponded to the viceroyalty of Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa in 1572, and was founded under the name of Santo Domingo de Huari. Its creation as a district was carried out during the Peruvian War of Independence. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the western part of the district. The highest peak of the district is Rurichinchay at . Other mountains are listed below: Located on the western skirts of the eastern mountain range in the Callejón de Conchucos valley (running parallel to the Callejón de Huaylas valley) Huari is characterised by its unique panoramas. The Mosna River feeds the Marañón River, which, in turn, gives birth to the Amazon River. The Huari District is located 3,149 meters above se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peru
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Ancash Region
Ancash ( qu, Anqash; es, Áncash ) is a department and region in northern Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is the city of Huaraz, and its largest city and port is Chimbote. The name of the region originates from the Quechua word ('light, of little weight'), from ('blue') or from ('eagle'). Geography Ancash is a land of contrasts: it features two great longitudinal valleys, which combine the mountain characteristics of the Callejón de Huaylas (Alley of Huaylas) with the sylvan ones of the Alto Marañón. Kilometres of sandy beaches and the blue waters of the Pacific. The territory of the coast, high plateaux and Andean '' punas'' of the department are flat, while the rest of the territory, in the Andes, is very rough. In the west, there are slopes with strong declivity form narrow canyons with abrupt and deserted sides. The rough territor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S latitude), and has an average height of about . The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Along their length, the Andes are split into several ranges, separated by intermediate depressions. The Andes are the location of several high plateaus—some of which host major cities such as Quito, Bogotá, Cali, Arequipa, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Sucre, Mérida, El Alto and La Paz. The Altiplano plateau is the world's second-highest after the Tibetan plateau. These ranges are in turn grouped into three major divisions based on climate: the Tropical Andes, the Dry Andes, and the Wet Andes. The Andes Mountains are the highest m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cordillera Blanca
The Cordillera Blanca (Spanish for "white range") is a mountain range in Peru that is part of the larger Andes range and extends for between 8°08' and 9°58'S and 77°00' and 77°52'W, in a northwesterly direction. It includes several peaks over high and 722 individual glaciers. The highest mountain in Peru, Huascarán, at high, is located there. The Cordillera Blanca lies in the Ancash region and runs parallel to the Santa River valley (also called Callejón de Huaylas in its upper and midsections) on the west. Huascarán National Park, established in 1975, encompasses almost the entire range of the Cordillera Blanca. Snowmelt from the Cordillera Blanca provides part of northern Peru with its year-round water supply, while 5% of Peru's power comes from a hydro-electrical plant located in the Santa River valley. The area of permanent ice cover shrank by about a third between the 1970s and 2006. Geography The Cordillera Blanca is the most extensive tropical ice-covered m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marcará District
Marcará District is one of eleven Districts of Peru, districts of the Carhuaz Province in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous citizens of Quechua people, Quechua descent. Quechua language, Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (76.61%) learnt to speak in childhood, 23.08% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language, Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que apredió hablar (in Spanish) See also * Ancash QuechuaReferences Districts of the Carhuaz Province Districts of the Ancash Region {{Ancash-geo-stub ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Copap
Copap (possibly from Quechua ''qupa'' the mineral turquoise and the turquoise color, ''-p'' a suffix,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)) is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru whose summit reaches about or above sea level depending on the source. It is located in Chacas District, Asunción Province, Ancash; in the same massif as Perlilla which belongs to the glacial system of Copap. In 1998, it was reported to have the longest glacier in the Cordillera Blanca range (). See also * Yanacocha Yanacocha ( Cajamarca Quechua: ''yana'' = "black, dark", ''qucha'' = "lake, puddle, pond, lagoon") is a gold mine in the Cajamarca region of the Northern Highlands of Peru. Considered to be the fourth largest gold mine in the world, it produced ... References Mountains of Peru Mountains of Ancash Region Glaciers of Ancash Region {{Ancash-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |