Huascarán National Park
Huascarán National Park is in the Central Sierra region of Peru. It's inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. It's one of the biggest mountain ranges in the world, the majority of its peaks measure around 6000 m above sea level…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: World Heritage Site and national park in Peru
- Also known as: “Huascaran”, “Huascarán”, and “Huascaran National Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Urus and Refugio Ishinca.
Urus
Peak
Photo: lokoperucho, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Urus, also known as Yanaraju, is a 5,423-metre-high mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru. It located between Carhuaz and Huaraz provinces, in Ancash. Urus lies in Huascarán National Park, west of Tocllaraju.
Huascarán National Park
- Category: national park of Peru
- Location: Huaraz Province, Ancash, Central Sierra, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Huascarán National Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منتزه هواسكاران الوطني”
- Azerbaijani: “Uaskaran Milli Parkı”
- Balinese: “Taman Nasional Huascarán”
- Belarusian: “Нацыянальны парк Уаскаран”
- Burmese: “ဝပ်စ်ကာရန်း အမျိုးသားဥယျာဉ်”
- Catalan: “Parc Nacional del Huascarán”
- Cebuano: “Huascaran National Park”
- Chinese: “瓦斯卡兰国家公园”
- Chinese: “瓦斯卡蘭國家公園”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni park Huascarán”
- Czech: “Národní park Huascarán”
- Danish: “Huascarán National Park”
- Danish: “Huascarán natonalpark”
- Danish: “Parque Nacional Huascaran”
- Danish: “Parque Nacional Huascarán”
- Dutch: “Huascaran Nationaal Park”
- Dutch: “Huascarán Nationaal Park”
- Dutch: “Nationaal park Huascaran”
- Dutch: “Nationaal park Huascarán”
- Finnish: “Huascaranin kansallispuisto”
- Finnish: “Huascaránin kansallispuisto”
- French: “Parc national de Huascaran”
- French: “parc national de Huascarán”
- French: “Parc national de Huascarán”
- French: “Parc national du huascaran”
- French: “Parc national du Huascarán”
- Galician: “Parque Nacional Huascarán”
- Georgian: “უასკარანის ეროვნული პარკი”
- German: “Huascarán-Nationalpark”
- German: “Nationalpark Huascarán”
- Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי וסקראן”
- Hebrew: “פארק לאומי ווסקראן”
- Hebrew: “פארק לאומי וסקראן”
- Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Huascarán”
- Italian: “Parco nazionale del Huascarán”
- Italian: “Parco nazionale dell’Huascarán”
- Japanese: “ウアスカラン国立公園”
- Japanese: “ワスカラン国立公園”
- Lithuanian: “Huaskarano nacionalinis parkas”
- Lithuanian: “Uaskarano nacionalinis parkas”
- Macedonian: “Национален парк Уаскаран”
- Malayalam: “ഹുവാസ്കറാൻ ദേശീയോദ്യാനം”
- Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali ta‘ Huascarán”
- Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali ta’ Huascarán”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Huascarán nasjonalpark”
- Norwegian: “Huascarán nasjonalpark”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pargue Nacionau de Huascarán”
- Persian: “پارک ملی هاسکاران”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Huascaran”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Huascarán”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional de Huascarán”
- Quechua: “Waskaran mama llaqta parki”
- Quechua: “Waskaran mamallaqta parki”
- Quechua: “Waskaran mamallaqta wari kancha”
- Russian: “Уаскаран (национальный парк)”
- Russian: “Уаскаран”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nacionalni park Huascarán”
- Slovak: “Národný park Huascarán”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional Huascaran”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional Huascarán”
- Swedish: “Huascarán nationalpark”
- Swedish: “Huascaráns nationalpark”
- Swedish: “Nationalparken Huascaran”
- Swedish: “Nationalparken Huascarán”
- Turkish: “Huascarán Milli Parkı”
- Turkish: “Huascarán Millî Parkı”
- Ukrainian: “Національний парк Уаскаран”
- Vietnamese: “Vườn quốc gia Huascaran”
- Vietnamese: “Vườn quốc gia Huascarán”
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