Laraos District
Laraos District is one of thirty-three districts of the province Yauyos in the Lima Region in Peru. Elderly people in Laraos still speak an archaic Quechua dialect. As no more children speak the language, it is in imminent danger of extinction.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ayavirí Yauyos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uqi Uqi and Yana P’unqu.
Uqi Uqi
Peak
Uqi Uqi is a mountain in the Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru which reaches a height of approximately 5,000 metres. It is located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, Laraos District. Uqi Uqi lies northeast of Wamp'una and T'uruyuq.
Yana P’unqu
Peak
Yana P'unqu is mountain Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru which reaches a height of approximately 4,800 metres. It is located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, Laraos District. Yana P'unqu lies north of a lake named Pumaqucha.
Uchku
Peak
Photo: Ywaz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uchku is mountain in the Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru which reaches a height of approximately 4,800 metres high. It is located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, Laraos District.
Laraos District
- Type: Locality with 546 residents
- Description: district in Lima, Peru
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Yauyos province, Lima region, Peru, South America
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Urdu—“Laraos District” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Laraw (Yawyu) jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Aymara: “Laraw jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Cebuano: “Laraos (distrito sa Provincia de Yauyos)”
- Cebuano: “Laraos”
- Chinese: “拉勞斯區”
- Dutch: “Laraos District”
- Georgian: “ლარაოსის რაიონი”
- German: “Distrikt Laraos”
- Italian: “distretto di Laraos”
- Italian: “Distretto di Laraos”
- Portuguese: “Laraos”
- Quechua: “Laraw distritu”
- Quechua: “Laraw”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Laraos (Yauyos)”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Laraos”
- Urdu: “لاراوس ضلع”
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