Yucay District is one of seven
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...
of the
Urubamba province 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 ...
. The town of
Yucay
Yucay () is a town in southern Peru. It is the capital of the Yucay District, which is near the center of Urubamba Province in the Cusco Region of southern Peru.
The area where Yucay is located is commonly called the Sacred Valley of the Incas. ...
is the capital of the district.
[ ]Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática
The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is a semi-autonomous Peruvian government agency which coordinates, compiles, and evaluates statistical information for the country. ...
.
Banco de Información Distrital
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See also
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Ayawayq'u
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Ch'akiqucha
Chaquicocha (possibly from Quechua ''ch'aki'' dry, ''qucha'' lake, "dry lake", Hispanicized spelling ''Chaquicocha'') is a mountain at a little lake of that name in the Urubamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Re ...
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T'uqu T'uquyuq
T'uqu T'uquyuq (Quechua ''t'uqu'' a niche, hole or gap in the wall, the reduplication indicates that there is a group or a complex of something, ''-yuq'' a suffix to indicate ownership,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuy ...
References
Districts of the Urubamba province
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