San Martín de Chacas is a
Peru
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vian town, capital of the eponymous district and the
Asunción Province, located in the east-central region of
Ancash. It has an urban population of 2,082 located at 3,359 meters; and a district of 5,334 people.
Censos Nacionales 2007: XI de Población y VI de Vivienda
The district, located in the sub-basin of the Marañon River, has an area of 447.69 km², which represents 85% of the province.
Chacas was founded in the 1570s, but it is known that the territory now covered by the province to which it belongs, together with the provinces of Huari Huari may refer to:
*Huari culture, a historical civilization in Peru
*Huari (archaeological site), an archaeological site in Peru
*Huari, Peru, a town in Peru
* Huari District, a district in the Huari Province, Peru
* Huari Province, a province in ...
and Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald, are the most remote evidence of human presence in the Eastern Sierra Ancash, represented by the findings of caves and rock shelters prior to the Chavin culture. The ethnic group that was present in this place after the fall of the Chavin culture was the lordship of Huari.
The city is characterized for having remained unchanged over the original Andean-Andalusia
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n architecture, with narrow streets, houses adorned with double water carved balconies and gates, made by craftsmen Don Bosco, whom Fr. Ugo de Censi, Operation Mato Grosso (with Chacas as a hub) and italian residents for thirty years, took charge of rebuilding the shrine Mama Ashu and restoration of the baroque
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altarpiece
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