Huamachuco District
Huamachuco District is one of the districts of the Sánchez Carrión province located in La Libertad Region in Peru. It contains the capital of the province and the important archeological site of Marcahuamachuco, which was active, likely as an oracle center and place for religious and political elites, about 350 CE to 1100 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Huamachuco Airport and Viracochapampa.
Huamachuco Airport
Aerodrome
Huamachuco Airport is an airport serving Huamachuco, in the La Libertad Region of Peru. The very high elevation runway has mountainous terrain in all quadrants.
Viracochapampa
Archaeological site
Viracochapampa, Huiracochapampa, or Wiracochapampa is an archaeological site with the remains of a building complex of ancient Peru of pre-Inca times. It was one of the administrative centers of the Wari culture. Viracochapampa is situated 4 km north of Huamachuco District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huamachuco.
Huamachuco
Town
Photo: David Almeida, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huamachuco is a town in northern Peru and capital of the province Sánchez Carrión in La Libertad Region. The city is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Huamachuco. Lake Sausacocha lies to the northeast.
Huamachuco District
- Type: Locality with 66,900 residents
- Description: district in La Libertad, Peru
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Sánchez Carrión Province, La Libertad, Peru, South America
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Spanish—“Huamachuco District” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Wamachuku jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Belarusian: “Уамачука”
- Cebuano: “Huamachuco (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Huamachuco”
- Chinese: “瓦馬丘科區”
- Georgian: “უამაჩუკოს რაიონი”
- German: “Distrikt Huamachuco”
- Italian: “distretto di Huamachuco”
- Italian: “Distretto di Huamachuco”
- Portuguese: “Huamachuco (distrito)”
- Portuguese: “Huamachuco”
- Quechua: “Wamachuku distritu”
- Russian: “Уамачуко”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Huamachuco”
- Spanish: “Huamachuco”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Huamachuco District”. Photo: David Baggins (David Almeida), CC BY-SA 2.0.