Ancash
Huaylas Province
Caraz District

Caraz

Caraz is a town in the in the southeastern part of Huaylas Province of the Ancash Region in .
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  • Type: Town with 15,900 residents
  • Description: town in the Caraz District in Peru
  • Also known as: “Cavás”

Caraz

Latitude
-9.0485° or 9° 2′ 55″ south
Longitude
-77.8101° or 77° 48′ 36″ west
Population
15,900
Elevation
2,441 metres (8,009 feet)
Open location code
6724X52Q+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288399269
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3698841
Wiki­data ID
Q1035471
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Caraz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاراز، بيرو”
  • Arabic: “كاراز”
  • Asturian: “Caraz”
  • Aymara: “Qaras”
  • Belarusian: “Карас”
  • Catalan: “Caraz”
  • Cebuano: “Carás”
  • Chinese: “卡拉斯”
  • Chinese: “卡拉茲”
  • Dutch: “Caraz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاراز”
  • Esperanto: “Caraz”
  • French: “Caraz”
  • Georgian: “კარასი”
  • German: “Caraz”
  • Hindi: “कैरज़”
  • Hungarian: “Caraz”
  • Italian: “Caraz”
  • Japanese: “カラス”
  • Korean: “카라즈”
  • Lithuanian: “Karasas”
  • Persian: “کاراز”
  • Polish: “Caraz”
  • Portuguese: “Caraz”
  • Quechua: “Caraz”
  • Quechua: “Qaras”
  • Romanian: “Caraz”
  • Russian: “Карас”
  • Spanish: “Caraz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caraz”

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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 Wikipedia page “Caraz”. Photo: Inti Runa Viajero, CC BY 2.0.