Lauricocha
Lauricocha is a small parish in the central Andean highlands of Peru. Lauricocha is located at on the shores of Lago Lauricocha in the Huánuco Region. The parish consists of half a dozen houses, scattered at an elevation of 3,850 m in a sparsely populated area near the village of Antacolpa, and 25 kilometres northwest of Yanahuanca, the capital of the province of Daniel Alcides Carrión.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 93 residents
- Description: human settlement in Peru
- Also known as: “Hacienda Lauricocha” and “Lauricocha, Huánuco”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cave of Lauricocha and Lake Lauricocha.
Lake Lauricocha
Lake
Photo: Waterloo1883, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Lauricocha is a lake in the Andes mountains of central Peru, within Huánuco Region. Lake Lauricocha is situated 4 km west of Lauricocha.
Lauricocha
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: San Miguel de Cauri District, Lauricocha Province, Huánuco Department, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-10.3155° or 10° 18′ 56″ southLongitude
-76.65859° or 76° 39′ 31″ westPopulation
93Elevation
3,856 metres (12,651 feet)Open location code
57X5M8MR+QHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5284113174OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3940428Wikidata ID
Q1808324
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Lauricocha” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Lauricocha”
- French: “Lauricocha”
- German: “Lauricocha”
- Spanish: “Lauricocha”
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