Yungay

Yungay was a city of the area of Ancash in the center-north of the Peru, in South America.

Localization

Yungay was located in the Valley of Huaylas one Río Santa at an altitude of 2.500 m, to 450 km in the north of Lima. In the east of the small town the peaks of snow-covered mountains of the White Cordillera are, with Huascarán, more the high mountain of Peru, with step more than 15 km in the east of Yungay.
Yungay was the capital of the Province of Yungay, as well as the principal city of the District of Yungay. The Province of Yungay has a population of 60.000 inhabitants (estimates 2000). The Province of Yungay occupies part of the Valley of Huaylas, the Valley of Conchucos (Yanama), the coast of Ancash (Quillo) and the Huascarán National park.

History

The army of " Restauration" , a chilo-Peruvian army during the War of the Confederation, was demolished by the army of the péruvo-Bolivian Confederation during the Battle of Yungay on January 20th, 1839, marking the dissolution of the young person Confédération.
A remarkable event of the history of Peru took place with Yungay, where, in the Cave of Guitarrero, the American archeologist Thomas F. Lynch (University of Cornell, the USA, 1969) discovered very old cultural vestiges going back to approximately 10.000 front JC, making " place; one of great testimonys of the origin of agriculture in Amérique".

Seism of Ancash

May 31st, 1970, a landslide caused by the seism of Ancash of 1970 buries the whole city, killing 17.000 people. Only 400 people survived, whose majority were with the cemetery or in the stage at the time of the earthquake, these zones being then highest of the city. The Peruvian government prohibited the excavations in the zone where the old town of Yungay is buried, declaring it national cemetery.

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