Huascarán

Huascarán, Nevado Huascarán or Mataraju is a mountain located in Yungay Province, Ancash Department, Peru. It is situated in the range of the western .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,768 metres
  • Description: mountain in the Peruvian province of Yungay
  • Also known as: “Huascarán Sur”, “Mons Huascaran”, “Mont Huascarán”, “Mount Huascaran”, “Nevado de Huascaran”, “Nevados Huascarán”, “Uaskaranas”, “Uaskarano kalnas”, and “ווסקראן”
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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Huascarán

Latitude
-9.12123° or 9° 7′ 16″ south
Longitude
-77.6043° or 77° 36′ 16″ west
Elevation
6,768 metres (22,205 feet)
Open location code
6724V9HW+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 365119592
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3696347
Wiki­data ID
Q200935
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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: “Уаскаран”
  • Catalan: “Huascarán”
  • Cebuano: “Huascarán”
  • Cebuano: “Nevado Huascarán”
  • Chinese: “瓦斯卡兰山”
  • Chinese: “瓦斯卡蘭山”
  • Czech: “Huascarán”
  • Danish: “Huascarán”
  • Dutch: “Huascarán”
  • Dutch: “Nevado Huascarán”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هوسكاران”
  • Esperanto: “Huascarán”
  • Finnish: “Huascarán”
  • French: “Huascarán”
  • Galician: “Huascarán”
  • Georgian: “უასკარანი”
  • German: “Huascarán”
  • German: “Nevado Huascarán”
  • Greek: “Ουασκαράν”
  • Hebrew: “וסקראן”
  • Hindi: “वास्कारान पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Huascarán”
  • Indonesian: “Huascarán”
  • Italian: “Huascarán”
  • Japanese: “ワスカラン”
  • Korean: “우아스카란산”
  • Ladin: “Huascarán”
  • Latin: “Mons Vascaran”
  • Lithuanian: “Huaskaranas”
  • Macedonian: “Уаскаран”
  • Malay: “Huascarán”
  • Malay: “Nevado Huascarán”
  • Mazanderani: “اواسکاران”
  • Mingrelian: “უასკარანი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هواسكاران”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huascarán”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huascarán”
  • Norwegian: “Nevado Huascaran”
  • Norwegian: “Nevado Huascarán”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Huascarán”
  • Persian: “اوآسکاران”
  • Polish: “Huascarán”
  • Portuguese: “Huascarán”
  • Quechua: “Waskaran urqu”
  • Quechua: “Waskaran”
  • Russian: “Уаскаран”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Waskaran”
  • Scots: “Huascarán”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Huascarán”
  • Slovenian: “Huascarán”
  • Spanish: “Huascarán”
  • Swahili: “Huascaran”
  • Swedish: “Huascarán”
  • Turkish: “Huascarán Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Уаскаран”
  • Venetian: “Huascarán”
  • Vietnamese: “Huascarán”

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