Isog (possibly from Quechua ''isu'' skin sickness caused by a certain

mite Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) of two large orders, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari. However, most recent genetic analyses do not recover the two as eac ...

(

mange Mange () is a type of skin disease caused by parasitic mites. Because various species of mites also infect plants, birds and reptiles, the term "mange", or colloquially "the mange", suggesting poor condition of the skin and fur due to the infecti ...

), ''-q'' 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 and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can ca ...

)Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is an archaeological site in

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. It is situated in the Huánuco Region, Huamalíes Province, Tantamayo District. The site was declared a National Cultural Heritage by ''Resolución Directoral'' No. 533/INC on June 18, 2002. Isog lies on the northern slope of the mountain

Susupillo Susupillo is a mountain with an archaeological site of the same name in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Huánuco Region, Huamalíes Province, Tantamayo District. The archaeological site of Susupillo lies on the northern slo ...

, which is also the name of the archaeological site south of Isog.

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Archaeological sites in the Department of Huánuco Archaeological sites in Peru {{Peru-archaeology-stub

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