Aija District
Aija District is one of 5 districts in Aija Province, Ancash Region, Peru. Its population was 2017 as of the 2017 census.Photo: Mantunezc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Puma Puñunan.
Puma Puñunan
Peak
Puma Puñuna is a mountain in the Cordillera Negra in the Andes of Peru which reaches a height of approximately 4,600 m. It lies in the Ancash Region, Aija Province, Aija District, southwest of Wank'ap'iti. Puma Puñunan is situated 3½ km east of Aija District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aija.
Aija
Town
Photo: Mantunezc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aija is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Aija in the region Ancash, on the west side of the Cordillera Negra. The famous scientist Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born here. Aija is situated 5 km northwest of Aija District.
Aija District
- Type: Locality with 2,020 residents
- Description: district in Ancash, Peru
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Aija Province, Ancash, Peru, South America
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Uzbek—“Aija District” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Ayha jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Aymara: “Ayha”
- Cebuano: “Aija (distrito sa Peru)”
- Cebuano: “Aija”
- Chinese: “艾哈區”
- Dutch: “Aija District”
- German: “Distrikt Aija”
- Italian: “Distretto di Aija”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aija”
- Norwegian: “Aija”
- Persian: “بخش ایجا”
- Portuguese: “Aija”
- Quechua: “Ayha distritu”
- Spanish: “Aija”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Aija”
- Uzbek: “Aija tumani”
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