South America
Peru

Huancavelica

Huancavelica is a department and region in with an area of 22,131.47 km2 and a population of 347,639. The capital is the city . The region is bordered by the departments of and Ica in the west, in the north, and in the east.
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  • Type: State with 455,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Department of Huancavelica”, “Huancavelica Department”, “Huancavelica Department, Peru”, “Huancavelica Region”, “Huancavelica Region, Peru”, and “Huancavelica, Peru”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puka Punta.

Peak
is a 5,136-metre-high mountain in the Chunta mountain range in the Andes of . It is situated in the Huancavelica Region, Castrovirreyna Province, , and in the Huancavelica Province, .

Huancavelica

Latitude
-13° or 13° south
Longitude
-75° or 75° west
Population
455,000
Elevation
4,733 metres (15,528 feet)
Open location code
57V72222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230774993
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3939467
Wiki­data ID
Q505220
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Huancavelica” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم هوانكافليكا”
  • Armenian: “Ուանկավելիկա”
  • Aymara: “Wankawelika Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Wankawillka jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Wankawillka jacha suyu”
  • Belarusian: “Гуанкавэліка”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Гуанкавеліка”
  • Belarusian: “Уанкавеліка”
  • Belarusian: “Уанкавэліка”
  • Bengali: “হুয়াঙ্কাভেলিকা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Хуанкавелика (регион)”
  • Bulgarian: “Хуанкавелика”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Huancavelica”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Huancavelica”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Huancavelica”
  • Cebuano: “Huancavelica”
  • Chinese: “Huancavelica Khu”
  • Chinese: “万卡韦利卡大区”
  • Chinese: “萬卡韋利卡大區”
  • Czech: “Huancavelica”
  • Danish: “Huancavelica”
  • Dutch: “Huancavelica”
  • Esperanto: “Departamento de Huancavelica”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Huankavelika”
  • Finnish: “Huancavelican alue”
  • French: “Département de Huancavelica”
  • French: “Huancavelica”
  • French: “Region de Huancavelica”
  • Georgian: “უანაკაველიკა”
  • Georgian: “უანკაველიკა”
  • Georgian: “უანკაველიკის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Huancavelica”
  • German: “PE-HUV”
  • German: “Region Huancavelica”
  • Greek: “Χουανκαβελίκα”
  • Gujarati: “હુઆન્કાવેલિકા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hindi: “हुआंकावेलिका प्रदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Huancavelica megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departamento Huancavelica”
  • Indonesian: “Huancavelica Region”
  • Indonesian: “Huancavelica”
  • Indonesian: “Region Huancavelica”
  • Indonesian: “Región Huancavelica”
  • Italian: “Huancavelica”
  • Italian: “regione di Huancavelica”
  • Italian: “Regione di Huancavelica”
  • Japanese: “ワンカベリカ県”
  • Kannada: “ಹುವಾನ್ವೆವೆಲಿಕಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “우앙카벨리카주”
  • Ladino: “Huancavelica”
  • Latin: “Huancavelica Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Huancavelicensis”
  • Latvian: “Vankavelikas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Huankavelikos departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Уанкавелика”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Huancavelica”
  • Marathi: “ह्वान्सवेलिका प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Huancavelica Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huancavelica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huancavelica-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Huancavelica”
  • Persian: “منطقه اوئانکاولیکا”
  • Persian: “منطقه اوانکاولیکا”
  • Polish: “Huancavelica”
  • Polish: “Region Huancavelica”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Huancavelica”
  • Portuguese: “Huancavelica”
  • Quechua: “Wankawillka suyu”
  • Quechua: “Wankawillka Suyu”
  • Russian: “Уанкавелика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Huancavelica (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Huancavelica”
  • Sinhala: “හුඅන්කාවෙලිකා කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “හුවාන්කාවෙලිකා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Huancavelica”
  • Slovenian: “PE-HUV”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Huancavelica”
  • Spanish: “Huancavelica”
  • Spanish: “Región de Huancavelica”
  • Spanish: “Región Huancavelica”
  • Swedish: “Huancavelica”
  • Tamil: “ஹஅஞ்சவேலிக்கா பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “హువాన్కావెలికా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นวังกาเบลิกา”
  • Turkish: “Huancavelica bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Huancavelica Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Уанкавеліка”
  • Urdu: “وانکابیلیکا ریجن”
  • Urdu: “وانکابیلیکا علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Huancavelica”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Huancavelica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Huancavelica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wankawilka”
  • Western Armenian: “Հուանքաֆելիքա”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہواناکیولیکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “万卡韦利卡大区”
  • “Huancavelica”

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