Ayacucho
Huamanga Province
Ayacucho District

Ayacucho

Ayacucho is in the region of . Ayacucho is embedded in a broad sunny valley with mild climate. It is home of the Morocucho people, a group of the Quechua. The population is about 100,000, altitude 2,700 m.
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  • Type: City with 216,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Ayacucho, Peru
  • Also known as: “Huamanga”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of St. Mary, Ayacucho and Coronel FAP Alfredo Mendívil Duarte Airport.

Church
Photo: Aucahuasi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Huamanga Cathedral is the main Baroque cathedral in Ayacucho, . It is under the ownership of the Catholic Church and was declared a Historic Cultural Heritage of the Nation of Peru in 1972.

Aerodrome
Photo: GelyJhohiv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an serving Ayacucho, . It is managed by CORPAC S.A, a government organization that oversees Peruvian airports.

Church
Photo: Txolo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Ayacucho

Latitude
-13.1604° or 13° 9′ 38″ south
Longitude
-74.2257° or 74° 13′ 33″ west
Population
216,000
Elevation
2,805 metres (9,203 feet)
IATA airport code
AYP
United Nations Location Code
PE AYP
Open location code
57R7RQQF+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272029209
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3947019
Wiki­data ID
Q504215
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ayacucho” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أياكوتشو”
  • Aragonese: “Ayacucho”
  • Asturian: “Ayacucho”
  • Aymara: “Ayaquchu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayakuço”
  • Basque: “Ayacucho (hiria)”
  • Basque: “Ayacucho”
  • Belarusian: “Аякуча”
  • Bengali: “আয়াকাছু”
  • Bulgarian: “Аякучо”
  • Catalan: “Ayacucho”
  • Cebuano: “Ayacucho (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Ayacucho”
  • Chinese: “阿亚库乔”
  • Chinese: “阿亞庫喬”
  • Chuvash: “Аякучо”
  • Czech: “Ayacucho”
  • Danish: “Ayacucho”
  • Dutch: “Ayacucho”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اياكوتشو”
  • Esperanto: “Ajakuĉo”
  • Finnish: “Ayacucho”
  • French: “Ayacucho”
  • Galician: “Ayacucho”
  • Georgian: “აიაკუჩო”
  • German: “Ayacucho”
  • German: “Huamanga”
  • Greek: “Αγιακούτσο”
  • Gujarati: “અયાકુચો”
  • Hebrew: “אייקוצ’ו”
  • Hindi: “अयाकुचो”
  • Hungarian: “Ayacucho”
  • Hungarian: “Huamanga”
  • Indonesian: “Ayacucho”
  • Irish: “Ayacucho”
  • Italian: “Ayacucho”
  • Japanese: “アヤクーチョ”
  • Japanese: “アヤクチョ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಯಾಕುಚೊ”
  • Korean: “아야쿠초”
  • Latin: “Aiacuchum”
  • Latin: “Ayacucho”
  • Latin: “Vamanga”
  • Latvian: “Ajakučo”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajakučas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ayacucho”
  • Malay: “Ayacucho”
  • Maltese: “Ayacucho”
  • Marathi: “अयाकुचो”
  • Nauru: “Ayacucho”
  • Nhengatu: “Ayacucho”
  • Nhengatu: “Ayakutiu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayacucho”
  • Norwegian: “Ayacucho”
  • Persian: “آیاکوچو”
  • Polish: “Ayacucho”
  • Portuguese: “Aiacucho”
  • Portuguese: “Ayacucho”
  • Quechua: “Ayacucho”
  • Quechua: “Ayak’uchu llaqta”
  • Quechua: “Ayak’uchu”
  • Quechua: “Ayakuchu llaqta”
  • Quechua: “Ayakuchu”
  • Quechua: “Wamanga”
  • Quechua: “Wamanqa”
  • Romanian: “Ayacucho”
  • Russian: “Аякучо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ayacucho”
  • Sinhala: “අයකුචෝ, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “අයකුචෝ”
  • Slovak: “Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Ayacucho”
  • Spanish: “Huamanga”
  • Spanish: “Humanga”
  • Spanish: “San Juan de la Frontera de Huamanga”
  • Swedish: “Ayacucho”
  • Tamil: “ஆயாகுசோ”
  • Tatar: “Аякучо”
  • Telugu: “అయాకుచో”
  • Thai: “อายากูโช”
  • Turkish: “Ayacucho”
  • Ukrainian: “Аякучо”
  • Urdu: “ایاکوچو”
  • Venetian: “Ayacucho”
  • Vietnamese: “Ayacucho”
  • Vietnamese: “San Juan de la Frontera de Huamanga”
  • Volapük: “Ayacucho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ayacucho”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿亚库乔”
  • “Ayacucho”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ayacucho”. Photo: EduardoZambrano, CC BY 2.0.