Morococha
Morococha is a town in the Morococha District in the Yauli Province of the Junín Region in Peru. It was the capital of the Morococha District until September 12, 2013, when the town of Nueva Morococha was established as the new capital of the district by Law No.Morococha
- Type: Town with 3,660 residents
- Description: city in Junín, Peru
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Morococha, Yauli Province, Junín Region, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-11.58778° or 11° 35′ 16″ south
Longitude
-76.06301° or 76° 3′ 47″ west
Population
3,660
Elevation
3,986 metres (13,077 feet)
Open location code
57W5CW6P+VQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Morococha” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Morococha”
- Cebuano: “Morococha (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Morococha”
- Dutch: “Morococha”
- French: “Morococha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morococha”
- Norwegian: “Morococha”
- Spanish: “Morococha”
- Spanish: “Nueva Morococha”
- Swedish: “Morococha”
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