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Huancasancos
Huanca Sancos is a province in central Ayacucho, Peru. On April 3, 1983, Shining Path terrorists entered the town of Lucanamarca and killed 69 people. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Political division The province extends over an area of and is divided into four districts. * Sancos (Huanca Sancos) * Carapo ( Carapo) * Sacsamarca ( Sacsamarca) * Santiago de Lucanamarca (Lucanamarca) Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (80.79%) learnt to speak in childhood, while 18.72% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007 See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucanamarca Massacre
The Lucanamarca massacre was a mass murder that took place in and around the town of Lucanamarca on 3 April 1983, by Sendero Luminoso terrorists. The attack, which claimed the lives of 69 members of indigenous peasant families, was ordered by central leadership of Peruvian terrorist organization Shining Path in reprisal for a lynching death of its local commander. Background On 17 May, 1980, the Maoist revolutionary group Shining Path went to war against the Peruvian state. The group was based in the Ayacucho Region. In March 1983, the local '' ronderos'' vigilantes captured Olegario Curitomay, a Shining Path commander in Lucanamarca, a small town in the Huanca Sancos Province of Ayacucho. Curitomay was taken to the town square, stoned, stabbed, set on fire, and finally shot.Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. 28 August 2003"La Masacre de Lucanamarca (1983)" Accessed 10 February 2008. Attack In April 3, 1983, Shining Path militants responded to the death of Olegario Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sancos District, Huanca Sancos
Sancos District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Yana Waqra at approximately . 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 (60.61%) learnt to speak in childhood, 38.51% 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 EstadÃstica e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivien ...). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carapo District
Carapo District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Wayta Wayta at . Other mountains are listed below: * Misa Rumi * Parya Muqu * Pincha Urqu * Qala Qala * Urqu Pata Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (84.37%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.46% 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 EstadÃstica e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivien ...). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q'illumayu
Q'illumayu ( Quechua ''q'illu'' yellow, ''mayu'' river, "yellow river", hispanicized spelling ''Ccuellumayo'') which upstream is called Churmi and Allawqa Wayq'u ''(Allauja Huayjo)'' is a river in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, in the provinces Huanca Sancos and Victor Fajardo. It is an affluent of the Qaracha River which ends in the Pampas River.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huancasancos Province (1) (Ayacucho Region) Q'illumayu originates in or near the lake Wachuwaq'asa ''(Huacoajasa)'' which lies in the east of the Sacsamarca District. Its direction is mainly to the north and later to the northwest. The confluence with the Qaracha River is in the Carapo District Carapo District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Wayta Wayta at . Other mountains are listed below: * Misa Rumi * Parya Muqu * Pincha Urqu * Qala Qala * Urqu ..., southeast of the lake Tiyu Qucha ''(Tiyo Ccocha)' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinwaqucha (Ayacucho)
Kinwaqucha (Quechua ''kinwa'' quinoa, ''qucha'' lake, "quinoa lake", also spelled ''Ccuenhua Cocha, Cuenhuacocha'') is a lake in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, Huanca Sancos Province, Sacsamarca District. Kinwaqucha lies northeast of the village of Kinwa Khuchu ("quinoa corner", also spelled ''Ccuenhuacucho''), also named Kinwa Wayq'u ("quinoa stream", ''Cenhuahuaycco''), and the small lake named Pukaqucha '("red lake", Pucacocha). The Kinwa Wayq'u ''(Ccuenhuaycco)'' originates near the lake. Its waters flow to the Q'illumayu Q'illumayu ( Quechua ''q'illu'' yellow, ''mayu'' river, "yellow river", hispanicized spelling ''Ccuellumayo'') which upstream is called Churmi and Allawqa Wayq'u ''(Allauja Huayjo)'' is a river in Peru located in the Ayacucho Region, in the provinc ... (Quechua for "yellow river"). References Lakes of Peru Lakes of Ayacucho Region {{Ayacucho-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shining Path
The Shining Path ( es, Sendero Luminoso), officially the Communist Party of Peru (, abbr. PCP), is a communist guerrilla group in Peru following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought. Academics often refer to the group as the Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path (, abbr. PCP-SL) to distinguish it from other communist parties in Peru. When it first launched its "people's war" in 1980, the Shining Path's goal was to overthrow the government through guerrilla warfare and replace it with a New Democracy. The Shining Path believed that by establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat, inducing a cultural revolution, and eventually sparking a world revolution, they could arrive at full communism. Their representatives stated that the then-existing socialist countries were revisionist, and the Shining Path was the vanguard of the world communist movement. The Shining Path's ideology and tactics have influenced other Maoist insurgent groups such as the Communis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucanamarca
Santiago de Lucanamarca District is one of four districts of the province Huanca Sancos in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Parya at . Other mountains are listed below: The largest lake of the district is Qalla Qucha on the border with the Sancos District. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (95.22%) learnt to speak in childhood, 4.38% 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 EstadÃstica e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivien ...). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacsamarca District
Sacsamarca District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Wank'a Saywa at approximately . 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 (94.24%) learnt to speak in childhood, 5.47% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish) See also * Kinwaqucha * |
Ñawpallaqta, Huanca Sancos
Ñawpallaqta or Ñawpa Llaqta (Quechua '' ñawpa'' ancient, ''llaqta'' place (village, town, city, country, nation),Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "ancient place", Hispanicized and mixed spellings ''Ñaupallacta, Ñaupallaqta'') is an archaeological site in Peru. It lies in the Ayacucho Region, Huanca Sancos Province, Carapo District Carapo District is one of four districts of the Huanca Sancos Province in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Wayta Wayta at . Other mountains are listed below: * Misa Rumi * Parya Muqu * Pincha Urqu * Qala Qala * Urqu ....mincetur.gob.pe "Complejo arqueológico de Ñaupallaqta", retrieved on January 28, 2014 The site was declared a National Cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Peru Census ...
The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivienda (Eleventh Population and Sixth Household Census). The previous census performed in Peru was the 2005 Census, the following census was the 2017 Peru Census. Population by region See also *Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica e Informática (INEI) References External links * {{Official website, http://censos.inei.gob.pe/cpv2007/tabulados/ Censuses in Peru Demographics of Peru 2007 in Peru Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
