Huaraz

Huaraz, formerly designated as San Sebastián de Huaraz, is a city in . It is the capital of the Ancash Region and the seat of government of .
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  • Type: City with 119,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ancash, Peru
  • Also known as: “Centenario”, “Huaras”, “Huaraz (stad)”, “San Sebastián de Huaraz”, “Uapas”, “urbs Huarazensis”, “הואראז”, and “ואראז”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Archaeological Museum of Ancash.

Museum
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Huaraz

Latitude
-9.5299° or 9° 31′ 48″ south
Longitude
-77.529° or 77° 31′ 44″ west
Population
119,000
Elevation
2,829 metres (9,281 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PE HUZ
Open location code
6724FFCC+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272367389
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3696378
Wiki­data ID
Q793809
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Huaraz” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሁዋራዝ”
  • Arabic: “هواراس”
  • Arabic: “هوراز”
  • Aragonese: “Huaraz”
  • Asturian: “Huaraz”
  • Aymara: “Waras”
  • Azerbaijani: “Huaraz”
  • Belarusian: “Гуарас”
  • Belarusian: “Уарас”
  • Bengali: “হুয়ারাজ”
  • Catalan: “Huaraz”
  • Cebuano: “Huaraz (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Huaraz”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉斯”
  • Chuvash: “Уарас”
  • Czech: “Huaraz”
  • Danish: “Huaraz”
  • Dutch: “Huaraz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هواراس”
  • Esperanto: “Huaraz”
  • Finnish: “Huaraz”
  • French: “Huaraz”
  • Galician: “Huaraz”
  • Georgian: “უარასი”
  • German: “Huaraz”
  • Greek: “Χουαράζ”
  • Gujarati: “હુરાઝ”
  • Hausa: “Huaraz”
  • Hebrew: “ואראס”
  • Hindi: “वारास”
  • Hindi: “हुराज़”
  • Hungarian: “Huaraz”
  • Indonesian: “Huaraz”
  • Irish: “Huaraz”
  • Italian: “Huaraz”
  • Japanese: “ワラス”
  • Javanese: “Huaraz”
  • Kannada: “ಹುರಾಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Уарас”
  • Kirghiz: “Уарас”
  • Korean: “와라즈”
  • Korean: “우아라스”
  • Latin: “Huaraz”
  • Latin: “Varas”
  • Latvian: “Uarasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Huarasas”
  • Lithuanian: “Uarasas”
  • Macedonian: “Уараз”
  • Macedonian: “Уарас”
  • Malay: “Huaraz”
  • Marathi: “हुआराज”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huaraz”
  • Norwegian: “Huaraz”
  • Oromo: “Huaraz”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੁਆਰਾਜ਼”
  • Persian: “اواراز”
  • Polish: “Huaraz”
  • Portuguese: “Huaraz”
  • Pushto: “هوراز”
  • Quechua: “Waras”
  • Russian: “Уарас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Huaraz”
  • Silesian: “Huaraz”
  • Sinhala: “හුරාස්”
  • Slovak: “Huaraz”
  • Slovenian: “Huaraz”
  • Somali: “Huaraz”
  • Spanish: “Huaraz”
  • Swahili: “Huaraz”
  • Swedish: “Huaraz”
  • Tajik: “Уарас”
  • Tamil: “ஹுவாராஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Варас”
  • Tatar: “Уарас”
  • Telugu: “హుయరాజ్”
  • Thai: “วารัซ”
  • Turkish: “Huaraz”
  • Ukrainian: “Уарас”
  • Urdu: “واراس”
  • Uzbek: “Huaraz”
  • Venetian: “Huaraz”
  • Vietnamese: “Huaraz”
  • Volapük: “Huaraz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Huaraz”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦拉斯”
  • “Huaraz”

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