Ranrahirca District
Ranrahirca District is one of eight districts of the Yungay Province in Peru. Ranrahirca District has an elevation of 3,198 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yungay and Ranrahirca.
Yungay
Town
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Yungay, also known as Yungay Nuevo, is a town in the Ancash Region in north central Peru, South America. Yungay is situated 6 km northwest of Ranrahirca District.
Ranrahirca
Village
The 1962 Ranrahirca Landslide was a deadly debris avalanche that affected the Ranrahirca District, alongside the river Santa, near Huascarán, the highest mountain in Peru.
Ranrahirca District
- Type: Locality with 2,660 residents
- Description: district in Ancash, Peru
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Yungay Province, Ancash, Peru, South America
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Uzbek—“Ranrahirca District” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Ramrahirka jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Cebuano: “Ranrahirca”
- Chinese: “蘭拉伊卡區”
- Dutch: “Ranrahirca District”
- Georgian: “რანრაირკის რაიონი”
- German: “Distrikt Ranrahirca”
- Italian: “Distretto di Ranrahirca”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ranrahirca”
- Norwegian: “Ranrahirca”
- Portuguese: “Ranrahirca”
- Quechua: “Ramrahirka distritu”
- Quechua: “Ranrahirka distritu”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Ranrahirca”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Ranrahírca”
- Uzbek: “Ranrahirca tumani”
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