Guitarrero Cave
Guitarrero Cave is located in the Callejón de Huaylas valley in Yungay Province, in the Ancash region of Peru. The cave stands 50 m above the Santa River and 2,580 m meters above sea level.Photo: Ondando, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ranrahirca and Yungay.
Ranrahirca
Village
The 1962 Ranrahirca Landslide was a deadly debris avalanche that affected the Ranrahirca District, alongside the river Santa, near Huascarán, the highest mountain in Peru. Ranrahirca is situated 4 km north of Guitarrero Cave.
Yungay
Town
Photo: Fmendez46, Public domain.
Yungay, also known as Yungay Nuevo, is a town in the Ancash Region in north central Peru, South America. Yungay is situated 8 km northwest of Guitarrero Cave.
Guitarrero Cave
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave
- Categories: archaeological site, historic site, and landform
- Location: Mancos District, Yungay Province, Ancash, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-9.20608° or 9° 12′ 22″ southLongitude
-77.70939° or 77° 42′ 34″ westOpen location code
6724Q7VR+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 7193042794OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q1554172
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Guitarrero Cave” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كهف جيتارريرو”
- Chinese: “吉他洞穴”
- Dutch: “Guitarrero Cave”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف جيتارريرو”
- French: “Cueva del Guitarrero”
- French: “Grotte du Guitarrero”
- Georgian: “გიტარეროს მღვიმე”
- German: “Guitarrero-Höhle”
- German: “Guitarrero”
- German: “Guitarrerohöhle”
- Italian: “Cueva del Guitarrero”
- Macedonian: “Гитареро”
- Polish: “Guitarrero”
- Portuguese: “Cueva del Guitarrero”
- Quechua: “Guitarrero mach’ay”
- Quechua: “Kitarawaqachiqpa mach’aynin”
- Russian: “Гитарреро (пещера)”
- Russian: “Гитарреро”
- Spanish: “Cueva del Guitarrero”
- Turkish: “Guitarrero Mağarası”
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