Huascarán
Huascarán, Nevado Huascarán or Mataraju is a mountain located in Yungay Province, Ancash Department, Peru. It is situated in the Cordillera Blanca range of the western Andes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,768 metres
- Description: mountain in the Peruvian province of Yungay
- Also known as: “Huascaran”, “Huascarán Sur”, “Mount Huascaran”, “Nevado de Huascaran”, and “Nevados Huascarán”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Huascarán
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Yungay District, Yungay Province, Ancash, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-9.12123° or 9° 7′ 16″ southLongitude
-77.6043° or 77° 36′ 16″ westElevation
6,768 metres (22,205 feet)Open location code
6724V9HW+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 365119592OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Huascarán” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوسكاران”
- Arabic: “واسكاران”
- Asturian: “Huascarán”
- Balinese: “Huascarán”
- Basque: “Huascarán”
- Belarusian: “Гара Уаскаран”
- Belarusian: “Уаскаран”
- Catalan: “Huascarán”
- Cebuano: “Huascarán”
- Cebuano: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Chinese: “瓦斯卡兰山”
- Chinese: “瓦斯卡蘭山”
- Czech: “Huascarán”
- Danish: “Huascarán”
- Danish: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Dutch: “Huascarán”
- Dutch: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هوسكاران”
- Esperanto: “Huascarán”
- Finnish: “Huascaran”
- Finnish: “Huascarán”
- French: “Huascarán”
- French: “Mont Huascarán”
- French: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Galician: “Huascarán”
- Georgian: “უასკარანი”
- German: “Huascarán”
- German: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Greek: “Ουασκαράν”
- Hebrew: “ווסקראן”
- Hebrew: “וסקראן”
- Hindi: “हुआस्करन”
- Hungarian: “Huascarán”
- Indonesian: “Huascarán”
- Indonesian: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Italian: “Huascarán”
- Japanese: “ワスカラン”
- Korean: “우아스카란산”
- Ladin: “Huascarán”
- Latin: “Mons Huascaran”
- Latin: “Mons Vascaran”
- Lithuanian: “Huaskaranas”
- Lithuanian: “Uaskaranas”
- Lithuanian: “Uaskarano kalnas”
- Macedonian: “Уаскаран”
- Malay: “Huascarán”
- Malay: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Mazanderani: “اواسکاران”
- Mingrelian: “უასკარანი”
- Moroccan Arabic: “هواسكاران”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Huascarán”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huascarán”
- Norwegian: “Nevado Huascaran”
- Norwegian: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Huascarán”
- Persian: “اوآسکاران”
- Polish: “Huascarán”
- Portuguese: “Huascarán”
- Portuguese: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Quechua: “Waskaran urqu”
- Quechua: “Waskaran”
- Russian: “Уаскаран”
- Saterfriesisch: “Waskaran”
- Scots: “Huascarán”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Huascarán”
- Slovenian: “Huascarán”
- Spanish: “Huascaran”
- Spanish: “Huascarán”
- Spanish: “Nevado Huascaran”
- Spanish: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Swahili: “Huascaran”
- Swedish: “Huascarán”
- Swedish: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Turkish: “Huascarán Dağı”
- Turkish: “Huascarán”
- Turkish: “Nevado Huascarán”
- Ukrainian: “Уаскаран”
- Venetian: “Huascarán”
- Vietnamese: “Huascarán”
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