Look up chincha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chincha (Quechua chincha, chinchay north, northern, ocelot) may refer to: Chincha Alta, a city in...
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The Chincha Islands (Spanish: Islas Chincha) are a group of three small islands 21 kilometres (13 mi) off the southwest coast of Peru, to which they belong...
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The Chincha culture (or Ica-Chincha culture) was the culture of a Native Peruvian people living near the Pacific Ocean in south west Peru. The Chincha Kingdom...
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Chincha Alta is a Peruvian city located in the Ica Region. A major port at the mouth of the Chincha River, it is the capital of Chincha Province. The...
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Resource war (section Chincha Islands War)
resource war in history is the conflict over Chincha Island guano in the late 19th century. The Chincha Islands of Peru are situated off of the southern...
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450; -76.133 The Chincha Province is one of five provinces of the Ica Region of Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Chincha Alta, a center...
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The Chincha Islands War, also known as Spanish–South American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-sudamericana), was a series of coastal and naval battles between...
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guano site, the Chincha Islands, was nearing depletion. This caused guano mining to shift to other islands north and south of the Chincha Islands. Despite...
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water, the sea otter has a denser coat. The chinchilla is named after the Chincha people of the Andes, who once wore its dense, velvet-like fur. By the end...
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Eupithecia chincha is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Ecuador. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (1997–2012). "Eupithecia chincha Dognin 1899". Home...
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Yauyos–Chincha Quechua or Yauyos Quechua is a language cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Yauyos and Chincha districts of Peru. There are numerous dialects:...
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La Voz de Chincha ('The Voice of Chincha') was a daily evening newspaper published from Chincha Alta, Peru. The newspaper was founded in 1924. Politically...
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the largest empire of the pre-Columbian era. The Chincha, an extinct merchant kingdom of the Chincha Islands of Peru. The Qolla inhabited the Potosí,...
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known as the "Bombardero de Chincha", remembered as the best Peruvian boxer of the twentieth century. He was born in Chincha on November 22, 1933. It had...
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limited the power of the president and increased the power of the Congress. Chincha Islands War Occupation of Araucanía War of the Pacific "República Liberal...
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Huancayo Junín 563,400 16 Huánuco Huánuco 242,400 7 Cusco Cusco 490,900 17 Chincha Alta Ica 222,500 8 Iquitos Loreto 458,300 18 Sullana Piura 209,200 9 Pucallpa...
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Pueblo Nuevo District is one of the eleven districts of the Chincha Province in Peru. v t e 13°24′17″S 76°07′37″W / 13.4048°S 76.1270°W / -13.4048;...
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officer until 1866. He suppressed an insurrection of Chinese workers on the Chincha Islands in 1865, and later in the same year landed at La Unión, El Salvador...
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the Province of Chincha, in the Region of Ica, Perú. During a period, this manor house had one of the richest plantations in Chincha, with around 1000...
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Nazca lines (section Chinchas glyphs)
Palpas region and along the Peruvian coast are other glyphs from the Chincha culture that have also been discovered. The following are images of some...
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collaborationist troops occupied Chincha in December 1881. Peruvian troops headed by Pedro Mas and Manuel de Erice took Chincha Baja on 6 January 1882. Manuel...
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Ancash (Huaylas–Conchucos) Alto Pativilca–Alto Marañón–Alto Huallaga Yaru Wanka (Jauja–Huanca) Yauyos–Chincha (Huangáscar–Topará)...
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Manuel de la Cámara (section Chincha Islands War)
the screw corvette Vencedora in the Pacific Squadron. In that year, the Chincha Islands War with Peru — joined later by Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador — broke...
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Hanan Suyukuna or "Upper Quarters" of the empire. The name is due to the Chincha culture, which was a trader kingdom in what is now the Ica Region. Chinchay...
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who worked on the sugar plantations in Cuba and in the guano beds of the Chincha Islands ('the islands of Hell') of Peru were treated brutally. 75% of the...
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Carla Rueda Cotito (born April 19, 1990 in Chincha, Peru) is a Peruvian volleyball player who plays for the Peru national team. Rueda represented her...
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sent by Pachacuti to the central Peruvian coast in order to conquer the Chincha. Years later the Sapa Inka sent his brother to various campaigns to the...
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Daniel H.; Wing, Elizabeth S. (1997). "Ritual Rodents: The Guinea Pigs of Chincha, Peru". Journal of Field Archaeology. 21 (1): 50. doi:10.2307/530560. JSTOR 530560...
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pre-Columbian Saltpeter War, in what is now Mexico, nor the "Guano War" as the Chincha Islands War is sometimes named. The war largely settled (or set up, depending...
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Chiefs were founded in January 1970 shortly after the return of Kaizer "Chincha Guluva" Motaung from the United States where he played as a striker for...
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