Yucay District
Yucay District is one of seven districts of the Urubamba province in Peru. The town of Yucay is the capital of the district.Photo: Gerd Breitenbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yanacocha and Chaquicocha.
Yanacocha
Lake
Yanacocha is a lake in Peru located in Huaylllabamba District, Urubamba Province, Cusco Region. It is about 14 m deep and 240 m long and it is situated at a height of about 3,951 metres.
Chaquicocha
Peak
Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chaquicocha is a 4,895-metre-high mountain at a little lake of that name in the Urubamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Calca Province, Calca District, and in the Urubamba Province, in the districts of Huayllabamba and Yucay. Chaquicocha is situated 4½ km northeast of Yucay District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yucay and Urubamba.
Yucay
Photo: Ynsalh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yucay is a village in Peru. The town is in a scenic valley and has many farming families. There is nothing to see or do in this town, but it can be a convenient base to make various short trips from.
Urubamba
Photo: 归零者, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Urubamba is a small town in Peru, located near the Urubamba River under the snow-capped mountain Chicón. It is the capital of the district of the same name.
Huayllabamba
Village
Photo: Gerd Breitenbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Huayllabamba is a town in Southern Peru, in the province Urubamba in the Cusco region. The town is capital of Huayllabamba District. It is located in what is known as the Sacred valley of the Incas. Huayllabamba is situated 5 km south of Yucay District.
Yucay District
- Type: Locality with 3,220 residents
- Description: district in Cusco, Peru
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Urubamba Province, Cuzco Department, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Urdu—“Yucay District” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Yukay jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Cebuano: “Yucay”
- Chinese: “尤凱區”
- Dutch: “Yucay District”
- French: “District de Yucay”
- Georgian: “იუკაის რაიონი”
- German: “Distrikt Yucay”
- Italian: “Distretto di Yucay”
- Portuguese: “Yucay”
- Quechua: “Yukay distritu”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Yucay”
- Urdu: “یوکے ضلع”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Molino and San Juan.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cerro Condortiana and Cerro Sayhua.
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