Yanahuanca is a town in central
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 ...
, capital of the province
Daniel Alcídes Carrión in the region
Pasco.
Etymology
The name of the town, is a phrase composed by the
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
adjective ''yana'' (black), and the Runasimi noun ''wanka'' ("huanca" in Spanish) that means "demarcatory stone", among other meanings;
for what "yanahuanca" would be understood as "black stone".
Climate
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia
Populated places in the Department of Pasco
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