Huamachuco
Huamachuco is a town in northern Peru and capital of the province of Sánchez Carrión in La Libertad Region. The city is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Huamachuco. Lake Sausacocha lies to the northeast.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Viracochapampa and Huamachuco Airport.
Viracochapampa
Archaeological site
Viracochapampa, Huiracochapampa, or Wiracochapampa is an archaeological site with the remains of a building complex of ancient Peru of pre-Inca times. It was one of the administrative centers of the Wari culture. Viracochapampa is situated 3 km north of Huamachuco.
Huamachuco Airport
Aerodrome
Huamachuco Airport is an airport serving Huamachuco, in the La Libertad Region of Peru. The very high elevation runway has mountainous terrain in all quadrants.
Huamachuco
- Type: Town with 41,600 residents
- Description: capital city of Sánchez Carrión, La Libertad, Peru
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Huamachuco District, Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.81547° or 7° 48′ 56″ south
Longitude
-78.04871° or 78° 2′ 55″ west
Population
41,600
Elevation
3,341 metres (10,961 feet)
Open location code
67435XM2+RG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Huamachuco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هواماتشوكو”
- Armenian: “Հուամաչուկո”
- Asturian: “Huamachuco”
- Belarusian: “Уамачука”
- Cebuano: “Huamachuco (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Huamachuco”
- Chinese: “瓦馬丘科”
- Chinese: “瓦马丘科”
- Dutch: “Huamachuco”
- Esperanto: “Huamaĉuko”
- French: “Huamachuco”
- German: “Huamachuco”
- Greek: “Ουαματσούκο”
- Italian: “Huamachuco”
- Japanese: “ウアマチュコ”
- Japanese: “ワマチューコ”
- Persian: “اواماچوکو”
- Portuguese: “Huamachuco”
- Quechua: “Huamachuco distritu”
- Quechua: “Huamachuco”
- Quechua: “Wamachuku”
- Russian: “Уамачуко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Huamachuco (grad)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Huamachuco”
- Spanish: “Huamachuco”
- Waray (Philippines): “Huamachuco”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de Armas Huamachuco and Teatro Municipal de Huamachuco.
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