Pichari is a town in central Peru, capital of the
Pichari District
Pichari District is one of ten districts of the province La Convención in Peru
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La Convención Province
La Convención Province is the largest of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru.
As part of the higher-altitude Amazon basin at the foot of the Andes, La Convención is one of three Peruvian provinces that promin ...
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Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...
. It is located on the east side of the
Apurímac River
The Apurímac River ( que, Apurimaq mayu; es, Río Apurímac, ; from Quechua ''apu'' 'divinity' and ''rimaq'' 'oracle, talker') rises from glacial meltwater of the ridge of the Mismi, a mountain in the Arequipa Province in the south-western m ...
, only about 3 km from the town of
Sivia
Sivia is a town in central Peru, capital of the Sivia District in Huanta Province, Ayacucho Region. It is on the west bank of the Apurímac River, about from the town of Pichari, capital of the Pichari District, La Convención Province, Cusc ...
, capital of the
Sivia District in
Huanta Province
Huanta Province is the northernmost of the eleven provinces in the Ayacucho region in Peru. The capital of the Huanta province is the city of Huanta.
History
In the colonial era, Huanta province was larger than it is currently, with traditional ...
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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 ...
, on the other side of the river.
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Populated places in the Cusco Region