Ancash
Yungay Province
Yungay District

Yungay

Yungay, also known as Yungay Nuevo, is a town in the Ancash Region in north central , .
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  • Type: Town with 5,270 residents
  • Description: capital city of Yungay, Ancash, Peru
  • Also known as: “Yungay, Peru”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ranrahirca.

Village
The 1962 Landslide was a deadly debris avalanche that affected the , alongside the river Santa, near , the highest mountain in Peru. is situated 4½ km southeast of Yungay.

Yungay

Latitude
-9.13976° or 9° 8′ 23″ south
Longitude
-77.74462° or 77° 44′ 41″ west
Population
5,270
Elevation
2,521 metres (8,271 feet)
Open location code
6724V764+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288398785
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3690673
Wiki­data ID
Q919678
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Yungay” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Yungay”
  • Aymara: “Yunkay”
  • Cebuano: “Yungay (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Yungay”
  • Chinese: “永盖”
  • Chinese: “永蓋”
  • Czech: “Yungay”
  • Danish: “Yungay”
  • Dutch: “Yungay”
  • French: “Yungay”
  • German: “Yungay”
  • Italian: “Yungay”
  • Japanese: “ユンガイ”
  • Korean: “융가이”
  • Lithuanian: “Jungajus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yungay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yungay”
  • Persian: “یونگای (انکاش)”
  • Persian: “یونگای”
  • Portuguese: “Yungay”
  • Quechua: “Yunkay”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yungay”
  • Silesian: “Yungay”
  • Slovak: “Yungay”
  • Spanish: “Yungay”
  • Swedish: “Yungay”
  • Urdu: “ینگے، پیرو”
  • Urdu: “ینگے”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yungay, Peru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yungay”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yungay”. Photo: Fmendez46, Public domain.