Yanawayin ( Quechua ''yana'' black,

Ancash Quechua Ancash Quechua, or Huaylay (Waylay), is a Quechua variety spoken in the Peruvian department of Ancash by approximately 1,000,000 people. Like Wanka Quechua, it belongs to Quechua I (according to Alfredo Torero). Classification The Ancash Quech ...

''wayi'' house, "black house", ''-n'' a

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...

, other spellings ''Yanahuain, Yanahuin, Yanahuni, Yanahuani'') is a lake in the central

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vian

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 ...

. It lies in the Lima Region,

Huaral Province The Huaral Province is one of the nine provinces in the Lima Region of Peru. It was created by Law No. 21488 on May 11, 1976 by president Francisco Morales Bermúdez out of eight districts of the Canta Province and four of the Huaura Province. Geo ...

Andamarca District Andamarca (from Quechua language, Quechua Anta Marka, meaning "copper village") is one of fifteen Districts of Peru, districts of the Concepción Province, Peru, Concepción Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is ...

, near the village of Yanawayin ''(Yanahuain)''.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huaral Province (Lima Region) showing the lake (unnamed) near the village of Yanawayin ''(Yanahuain)'' and near the destroyed village of Chungar The lake is situated at an altitude of about . Yanawayin Lake and Chungar landslide looking E IMG 3277

Landslide

The site made world headlines in 1971 when on March 18 a rock avalanche of fell from an outcrop of jointed

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

about above the lake. It created a wave of that destroyed the

Chungar Mine The Chungar Mine, inactive, exploited a polymetallic (Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag) skarn deposit in the high Andes of central Peru. It is located about 116 km NE of Lima, 57 km southwest of Cerro de Pasco, and 82 km northwest of La Oroya in t ...

camp on the shore, owned by the Mining Company (Cia Minera Chungar, S.A.), destroyed all the mines' surface facilities, and killed 200–600 miners.

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Landslide

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