Ancash (Quechua: Anqash; Spanish: Áncash pronounced [ˈaŋkaʃ]) is a department and region in western Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad...

volcanic island in the Gulf of California Tortuga Island, Peru, a small island in Department of Ancash, Peru Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida...

was a town in Peru that served as the seat of the province of the same name in the Department of Ancash. Located 2,400 m.a.s.l., it was destroyed by...

Yungay Province, Department of Ancash, Peru. It is situated in the Cordillera Blanca range of the western Andes. The southern summit of Huascarán (Huascarán...

Ancash Quechua, or Huaylay (Waylay), is a Quechua variety spoken in the Peruvian department of Ancash by approximately 1,000,000 people. Like Wanka Quechua...

became the department of Ancash. Since 1910, local historians have advocated the return of the name Huaylas, the original name given to Ancash by San Martín...

Huaura (Huacho) Oyón (Oyón) Yauyos (Yauyos) The department of Lima is bordered by the departments of Ancash on the north, Huánuco, Pasco, and Junín on the...

Jirón Áncash is a major street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The street starts at its intersection with the Jirón...

province of Chancay was unified with the province of Lima and Santa in the department of Ancash. Huaura was established as the capital of the province of Chancay...

is the Callejón de Huaylas, in the department of Áncash, headquarters of adventure tourism and the main point of reference for New Andean gastronomy...

1946 Ancash earthquake in the Andes Mountains of central Peru occurred on November 10 at 17:43 UTC. The earthquake had a surface-wave magnitude of 7.0...

January 20, 1839. In commemoration of this victory, the Department of Huaylas took the name of the Department of Ancash, as it is known today. Later the...

in the Department of Ancash, Peru, in the foothills of the Cordillera Negra. It has a route of just over 100 kilometres (62 mi) and a basin of 2,300 square...

villages of Cotahuasi District it is more usually called pitancas. Two more names, Cuncush and Cunco, are used by locals in the Department of Ancash. The...

exploitation of copper in the department of Huancavelica, and Proyecto Hilarion, a poly-metallic extraction project established in the department of Ancash. During...

2023. "Organizations Attached to the Department of Humanitarian Sciences and Arts". National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Archived from the original...

Government of Ancash (Spanish: Gobierno Regional de Áncash; GORE Áncash) is the regional government that represents the Department of Ancash. It is the...

the largest city in the Ancash Region and the 10th largest city in Peru. With a population of 425,367, it is the capital of both Santa Province and Chimbote...

"political creation" of Ancash (i.e. its renaming from "Huaylas"). Subdivisions of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation Republic of North Peru "Constitución...

and Amazonas regions on the north, the San Martín Region on the east, the Ancash and Huánuco regions on the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its...

construction of a railroad beginning in the west-central Andes, at the Department of Ancash. This venture, in turn, facilitated Peru Bureau of Public Works...

mountains of central Peru, in the departments of Ancash, Huánuco, Pasco, Junín and Lima. This Quechua I differs from the Quechua II by the use of long vowels...

off-white, the sides of the head often partly gray, and the scapulars brownish gray. The Andean goose is found from Peru's departments of Ancash and Junín south...

south and the Lima and Ancash regions in the west. Its capital is the city Huánuco. Huánuco has a rough topography comprising parts of the Sierra and the...

The district of Nuevo Chimbote is one of the nine that make up the province of Santa, located in the department of Ancash in Peru. It is bordered to the...

born on 10 January 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Áncash. He was an engineer, physicist and mathematician...

province of Buenos Aires, on 1 May 1842 by shooting himself in the head. As a tribute, the Mariscal Luzuriaga Province in the Department of Ancash of Peru...

Gerald B (1998). "A survey of traditional medicinal plants from the Callejón de Huaylas, Department of Ancash, Perú". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 61 (1):...

the Ancash city of Yungay, in a deeply Catholic home made up of his parents Alfredo and Luisa. Bambarén was the fifth of eight siblings, two of whom...

collected in the Succha District of the Department of Ancash in western Peru. He considered his specimen to be a subspecies of the black-capped gnatcatcher...