South America
Peru
Ancash

Huaylas Province

Huaylas is one of 20 provinces of the Ancash Region in . Huaylas Province has an elevation of 2,714 metres.
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  • Type: Region with 51,300 residents
  • Description: province of Ancash Region, Peru
  • Also known as: “Huaylas province” and “Province of Huaylas”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cañón del Pato.

Locality
is on the Rio Santa at the north end of the Callejón de Huaylas in north-central Peru. The mostly rocky canyon walls are too steep and arid for cultivation, and in only a few places are the slopes of the imposingly rugged canyon suitable even for grazing domestic animals.

Huaylas Province

Latitude
-8.9188° or 8° 55′ 8″ south
Longitude
-77.8291° or 77° 49′ 45″ west
Population
51,300
Elevation
2,714 metres (8,904 feet)
Open location code
673435JC+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1237030154
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
3696296
Wiki­data ID
Q1779670
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Aymara to Welsh—“Huaylas Province” goes by many names.
  • Aymara: “Waylas jisk’a suyu”
  • Catalan: “Huaylas”
  • Catalan: “província de Huaylas”
  • Cebuano: “Provincia de Huaylas”
  • Chinese: “Huaylas Séng”
  • Chinese: “瓦伊拉斯省”
  • Dutch: “Huaylas”
  • French: “Huaylas”
  • French: “province de Huaylas”
  • French: “Province de Huaylas”
  • Georgian: “უაილასი”
  • Georgian: “უაილასის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Provinz Huaylas”
  • Italian: “Huaylas”
  • Italian: “provincia di Huaylas”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Huaylas”
  • Lithuanian: “Huailaso provincija”
  • Lithuanian: “Uajlaso provincija”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Huaylas Séng”
  • Mingrelian: “უაილასი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huaylas”
  • Norwegian: “Huaylas”
  • Persian: “استان اوئایلاس”
  • Polish: “Huaylas”
  • Portuguese: “Huaylas”
  • Portuguese: “Província de huaylas”
  • Quechua: “Waylas pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Huaylas (provincie)”
  • Romanian: “Huaylas”
  • Russian: “Уайлас”
  • Spanish: “Huailas”
  • Spanish: “Huaylas”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Huaylas”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Huaylas”
  • Vietnamese: “Huaylas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Huaylas”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Huaylas”

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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 “Huaylas Province”. Photo: Alberto Cafferata, CC BY-SA 4.0.