Junín Department
Huancayo Province
El Tambo District

Huancayo

Huancayo is the capital of the Junín Region and Huancayo Province, in the central highlands of , in the Mantaro Valley and is crossed by the Shullcas, Chilca and Mantaro rivers.
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  • Type: City with 403,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Junín region, Peru
  • Also known as: “Huancaya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Huancayo and Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Huancayo.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose in Huancayo, . It is currently used for football matches and is the home of the Club Sport Huancayo of the Peruvian Primera División, as well as the Deportivo Junín.

Church
Photo: Wikiperuvian, Public domain.
The Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity also called Huancayo Cathedral is the largest church in the city of Huancayo in . It is located in the west of the Constitutión Square, it is neoclassical and inside preserves paintings from the Cusco School of painting.

Shopping center
Photo: DcB ‘09, Public domain.
is a shopping center.

Huancayo

Latitude
-12.0681° or 12° 4′ 5″ south
Longitude
-75.2101° or 75° 12′ 36″ west
Population
403,000
Elevation
3,596 metres (11,798 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PE JHY
Open location code
57V6WQJQ+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 268127318
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3939459
Wiki­data ID
Q468782
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Huancayo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وانكاشو”
  • Aragonese: “Huancayo”
  • Armenian: “Ուանկայո”
  • Asturian: “Huancayo”
  • Aymara: “Wankayu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Huankayo”
  • Basque: “Huancayo”
  • Belarusian: “Гуанкаё”
  • Belarusian: “Уанкаё”
  • Bengali: “হুয়ানকায়ু”
  • Bulgarian: “Уанкайо”
  • Catalan: “Huancayo”
  • Cebuano: “Huancayo”
  • Chinese: “万卡约”
  • Chinese: “萬卡約”
  • Czech: “Huancayo”
  • Czech: “Uankajo”
  • Danish: “Huancayo”
  • Dutch: “Huancayo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وانكاشو”
  • Esperanto: “Huancayo”
  • Fijian: “Huancayo”
  • Finnish: “Huancayo”
  • French: “Huancayo”
  • Georgian: “უანკაიო”
  • German: “Huancayo”
  • Greek: “Χουανκάγιο”
  • Gujarati: “હુઆંકાય”
  • Hebrew: “ואנקיו”
  • Hindi: “हुआंकेयो”
  • Hungarian: “Huancayo”
  • Indonesian: “Huancayo”
  • Irish: “Huancayo”
  • Italian: “Huancayo”
  • Japanese: “ワンカヨ”
  • Kannada: “ಹುನ್ಕಾಯೊ”
  • Korean: “우앙카요”
  • Latin: “Huancaium”
  • Latin: “Vancaium”
  • Latvian: “Vankajo”
  • Lithuanian: “Huankajas”
  • Lithuanian: “Huankajus”
  • Lithuanian: “Uankajas”
  • Lithuanian: “Uankajus”
  • Macedonian: “Уанкајо”
  • Malay: “Huancayo”
  • Marathi: “हुआंकेयो”
  • Moksha: “Уанкайа”
  • Moksha: “Уанкайо”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huancayo”
  • Norwegian: “Huancayo”
  • Persian: “اوانکایو”
  • Polish: “Huancayo”
  • Portuguese: “Huancayo”
  • Quechua: “Huancayo”
  • Quechua: “Wankayu”
  • Quechua: “Wankayuq”
  • Romanian: “Huancayo”
  • Russian: “Уанкайо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Huancayo”
  • Silesian: “Huancayo”
  • Sinhala: “හුආන් කයෝ”
  • Sinhala: “හුවාන්කායෝ, පේරු”
  • Slovak: “Huancayo”
  • Slovenian: “Huancayo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Huancayo”
  • Spanish: “Huancayo”
  • Swedish: “Huancayo”
  • Tamil: “ஹுவான்காயோ”
  • Tatar: “Ванкайо”
  • Telugu: “హుయాంకాయో”
  • Thai: “วังกาโย”
  • Thai: “อวงไกย์โอ”
  • Turkish: “Huancayo”
  • Ukrainian: “Уанкайо”
  • Urdu: “وانکایو”
  • Venetian: “Huancayo”
  • Vietnamese: “Huancayo”
  • Volapük: “Huancayo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Huancayo”
  • Wu Chinese: “万卡约”
  • “Huancayo”

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