Yanahuanca
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- Locality
- Yanahuanca
- Region
- Pasco
- Country
- Perú
- Population
- 0
- Timezone
- America/Lima
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- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Pasco Department
- Population
- 11333
- Elevation
- 3184
- Capital of
- Yanahuanca
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Yanahuanca is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Daniel Alcídes Carrión in the region Pasco.
==Etymology== The name of the town, is a phrase composed by the Quechua adjective yana (black), and the Runasimi noun wanka ("huanca" in Spanish) that means "demarcatory stone", among other meanings; for what "yanahuanca" would be understood as "black stone".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yanahuanca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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