Ayacucho

Ayacucho, known as Huamanga from its creation in 1822 until 1825, is a department of Peru. It is located in the south-central of the country. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path.
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  • Department of Peru with 620,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 4,087 metres (13,409 feet)
  • Also known as
    “Ayacucho Department”
    “Ayacucho region”
    “Ayacucho, Peru”
    “Department of Ayacucho”
    “Región de Ayacucho”

Ayacucho

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Latitude
-14° or 14° south
Longitude
-74.25° or 74° 15′ west
Open location code
57R72Q22+22
Geo­Names ID
3947018
Wiki­data ID
Q205112

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Ayacucho” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አያኩቾ”
  • Arabic: “إقليم أياكوتشو”
  • Aragonese: “Departamento d’Ayacucho”
  • Aymara: “Ayaquchu jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Ayaquchu Jach’a Suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayacucho”
  • Basque: “Ayacucho departamendua”
  • Basque: “Ayacucho”
  • Belarusian: “Аякуча”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Аякуча”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Аякуча”
  • Bengali: “আয়াকুকো অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Аякучо”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Ayacucho”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Ayacucho”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Ayacucho”
  • Cebuano: “Ayacucho”
  • Chinese: “阿亚库乔大区”
  • Chinese: “阿亞庫喬大區”
  • Czech: “Ajakučo”
  • Czech: “Ayacucho”
  • Danish: “Ayacucho”
  • Dutch: “Ayacucho”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم اياكوتشو”
  • Esperanto: “Ajakuĉo”
  • Esperanto: “Ayacucho”
  • Esperanto: “departamento de Ayacucho”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Ajakuĉo”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Ajakuĉo”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Ayacucho”
  • Finnish: “Ayacuchon alue”
  • French: “Ayacucho”
  • French: “Département d’Ayacucho”
  • French: “Region d’Ayacucho”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Ayacucho”
  • Georgian: “აიაკუჩო”
  • Georgian: “აიაკუჩოს რეგიონი”
  • German: “Ayacucho”
  • German: “PE-AYA”
  • German: “Region Ayacucho”
  • Greek: “Αγιακούτσο”
  • Gujarati: “આયાકુચો પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Ayacucho”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אייקוצ’ו”
  • Hindi: “अयाकुचो प्रदेश”
  • Hindi: “आयाकुचो विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Ayacucho megye”
  • Indonesian: “Ayacucho Region”
  • Indonesian: “Region Ayacucho”
  • Indonesian: “Región Ayacucho”
  • Italian: “Ayacucho”
  • Italian: “regione di Ayacucho”
  • Italian: “Regione di Ayacucho”
  • Japanese: “アヤクーチョ県”
  • Japanese: “アヤクチョ県”
  • Javanese: “Ayacucho”
  • Kannada: “ಅಯಕುಚೊ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Аякучо”
  • Kirghiz: “Аякучо”
  • Korean: “아야쿠초주”
  • Ladino: “Ayacucho”
  • Latin: “Aiacuchum Regio”
  • Latin: “Ayacucho Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Aiacuchensis”
  • Latvian: “Ajakučo departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajakučo departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajakučo regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Ајакучо”
  • Malay: “Negeri Ayacucho”
  • Malay: “Region Ayacucho”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Ayacucho”
  • Marathi: “आयॅकुचो प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ayacucho Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayacucho”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayacucho-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Ayacucho”
  • Oromo: “Ayacucho”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਯਾਕੁਚੋ”
  • Persian: “منطقه آیاکوچو”
  • Polish: “Region Ayacucho”
  • Portuguese: “Aiacucho”
  • Portuguese: “Ayacucho”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Ayacucho”
  • Pushto: “آیاکوچو”
  • Quechua: “Ayacucho suyu”
  • Quechua: “Ayak’uchu Suyu”
  • Quechua: “Ayakuchu suyu”
  • Quechua: “Ayakuchu Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Ayacucho”
  • Russian: “Аякучо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ayacucho (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ayacucho”
  • Sinhala: “අයකුචෝ කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “අයකුචෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Ayacucho”
  • Slovenian: “PE-AYA”
  • Somali: “Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Departamento Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “departamento de Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Región Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Region de Ayacucho”
  • Swahili: “Ayacucho”
  • Swedish: “Ayacucho”
  • Tajik: “Аякучо”
  • Tamil: “அயசுக்கோ பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Аякучо”
  • Telugu: “అయాకుచో ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นอายากูโช”
  • Turkish: “Ayacuchı Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Ayacucho bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Аякучо”
  • Urdu: “ایاکوچو ریجن”
  • Urdu: “ایاکوچو علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ayacucho”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Ayacucho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ayacucho”
  • Western Armenian: “Այաքուչօ տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “آیاکوچو”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿亚库乔大区”

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