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Contents
 Location
Province
History
Ancash Earthquake
Location - Contents
Yungay is located at 09°08′22″S, 77°44′42″W in the Callejón de Huaylas on Río Santa at an elevation of 2,500 m, 450 km north of Lima, the country's capital. East of the small town there are the mountain ridges of snow-covered Cordillera Blanca, with Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain, no more than 15 km east of Yungay.
Province - Contents
Yungay is the capital of Yungay Province, as well as the main town in the Yungay District. Yungay Province has a population of 60,000 ( 2000 estimate). The Province of Yungay occupies part of the Callejón de Huaylas, the Conchucos Valley (Yanama), the coast of Ancash (Quillo) and the Huascarán National Park.
History - Contents
A remarkable event of the history of Peru happened in Yungay, where in Guitarrero Cave the North American Thomas F. Lynch (University of Cornell, USA, 1969) discovered very old cultural vestiges from circa 10,000 BCE, making this place "one of the great testimonies of the origin of agriculture in América".The Chile-Peruvian Unity army, an invading troop defeated the army of the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy during the Battle of Yungay on January 20, 1839, marking the dissolution of the short-lived confederacy.
Ancash Earthquake - Contents
On May 31, 1970 a landslide caused by the 1970 Ancash earthquake buried the whole town, killing more than 20,000 persons. Only 400 people survived, most of whom were in the cemetery and stadium at the time of the earthquake, as these zones were the highest in town.The Peruvian government has forbidden excavation in the area where the old town of Yungay is buried, declaring it a national cemetery.
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