Huánuco

Huánuco, a city with a population of 75,000, is the capital of Huánuco Region in Central Highlands of Peru. Its location is the logical and tempting stopover point for the route between and .
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  • Type: City with 197,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Huánuco, Peru
  • Also known as: “Huanuco”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Heraclio Tapia and Cathedral of the Lord of Burgos, Huánuco.

Stadium
Photo: YENZI, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Municipal "Heraclio Tapia León", more commonly known as , is a multi-purpose stadium in Huánuco, . Built in 1972 and renovated in 2010, it is used by football teams Alianza Universidad of the Peruvian Primera División and León de Huánuco of the Copa Perú, along with numerous regional teams.

Church
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The Cathedral of the Lord of Burgos Also Huánuco Cathedral is the name of a religious building affiliated to the Catholic Church located in the city of Huánuco, .

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

Huánuco

Latitude
-9.9293° or 9° 55′ 46″ south
Longitude
-76.2395° or 76° 14′ 22″ west
Population
197,000
Elevation
1,795 metres (5,889 feet)
IATA airport code
HUU
United Nations Location Code
PE HUU
Open location code
67253QC6+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272401474
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3696417
Wiki­data ID
Q504394
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Huánuco” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Huánuco”
  • Amharic: “ሁዋኑኮ”
  • Arabic: “هانوكو”
  • Arabic: “هوانوكو”
  • Aragonese: “Huánuco”
  • Armenian: “Հուանուկո”
  • Asturian: “Huánuco”
  • Aymara: “Wanuku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Huanuco”
  • Basque: “Huánuco”
  • Belarusian: “Уанука”
  • Bengali: “হুয়ানঙ্কু”
  • Bengali: “হুয়ানুকো”
  • Catalan: “Huánuco”
  • Cebuano: “Huánuco (kapital sa rehiyon sa Peru)”
  • Cebuano: “Huánuco”
  • Chinese: “瓦努科”
  • Czech: “Huánuco”
  • Danish: “Huánuco”
  • Dutch: “Huánuco”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هانوكو”
  • Esperanto: “Huánuco”
  • Esperanto: “Ŭanuko”
  • Finnish: “Huanuco”
  • Finnish: “Huánuco”
  • French: “Huanuco”
  • French: “Huánuco”
  • Georgian: “უანუკო”
  • German: “Huanuco”
  • German: “Huánuco”
  • Greek: “Ουάνουκο”
  • Gujarati: “હ્યુઆનુકો”
  • Hausa: “Huanuco”
  • Hebrew: “וואנוקו”
  • Hindi: “वानुको”
  • Hindi: “हुआनूको”
  • Hungarian: “Huánuco”
  • Indonesian: “Huanuco”
  • Indonesian: “Huánuco”
  • Irish: “Huánuco”
  • Italian: “Huánuco”
  • Japanese: “ワヌコ”
  • Javanese: “Huanuco”
  • Kannada: “ಹುನಾನ್ಕೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Уануко”
  • Kirghiz: “Уануко”
  • Korean: “우아누코”
  • Latin: “Huánuco”
  • Latin: “Huanucum”
  • Latin: “Vanucum”
  • Latvian: “Vanuko”
  • Lithuanian: “Huanukas”
  • Macedonian: “Уануко”
  • Malay: “Huanuco”
  • Marathi: “हुआनुको”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huanuco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huanuco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huánuco”
  • Norwegian: “Huánuco”
  • Oromo: “Huanuco”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੁਆਨੂਕੋ”
  • Persian: “اوئانوکو”
  • Persian: “اوانوکو”
  • Polish: “Huanuco”
  • Polish: “Huánuco”
  • Portuguese: “Huánuco”
  • Pushto: “هوانوکو”
  • Quechua: “Huánuco”
  • Quechua: “Wanuku”
  • Romanian: “Huanuco”
  • Romanian: “Huánuco”
  • Russian: “Уануко”
  • Russian: “Хуануко”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Huánuco”
  • Sinhala: “හුආනුකෝ, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “හුආනුකෝ”
  • Slovak: “Huánuco”
  • Slovenian: “Huanuco”
  • Slovenian: “Huánuco”
  • Somali: “Huanuco”
  • Spanish: “Huanuco”
  • Spanish: “Huánuco”
  • Spanish: “huanuqueño”
  • Swahili: “Huanuco”
  • Swedish: “Huanuco”
  • Swedish: “Huánuco”
  • Tajik: “Уануко”
  • Tamil: “ஹுவாங்உகோ”
  • Tatar: “Вануко”
  • Tatar: “Уануко”
  • Telugu: “హ్యూఅనుకో”
  • Thai: “วานูโก”
  • Turkish: “Huanuco”
  • Turkish: “Huánuco”
  • Ukrainian: “Уануко”
  • Urdu: “وانوکو”
  • Uzbek: “Huanuco”
  • Venetian: “Huánuco”
  • Vietnamese: “Huanuco”
  • Volapük: “Huánuco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Huánuco”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦努科”
  • “Huanuco”
  • “Huánuco”

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