Willkawain (place)

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Willkawain
Willkawain (Peru)
Willkawain
Willkawain
Coordinates 9 ° 29 ′  S , 77 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 9 ° 29 ′  S , 77 ° 31 ′  W
Basic data
Country Peru

region

Ancash
province Huaraz
ISO 3166-2 PE-ANC
District Independencia
height 3350 m
Residents 2124 (2017)
Willkawayin Temple
Willkawayin Temple

Willkawain , alternative spelling: Wilcahuain , is a town in the Independencia district in the Huaraz province in the Ancash region in western Peru . Together with the neighboring village of Paria, Willkawain has 2124 inhabitants (as of 2017).

location

Willkawain is about 6 km northeast of Huaraz at the foot of the Cordillera Blanca further east at an altitude of 3350  m .

Transport links

  • A road leads from Huaraz through the village to the high mountains.
  • A footpath leads down to Monterrey (approx. 4 km).

Attractions

On the outskirts above the cemetery is the Willkawayin temple .

literature

  • Rolf Seeler: Peru and Bolivia. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-4786-3 .
  • Alan Murphy: Peru Handbook. 2nd edition. Footprint Handbooks, Bath 1999, ISBN 0-8442-2187-2 , p. 312 (English).
  • Gerhart Moser: Cordillera Blanca. South. = Cordillera Blanca, South, Perú. Trekking map. Austrian Alpine Club, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-937530-05-3 ( Alpine Club Map 0.3b), (scale 1: 100,000; legend in German, Spanish, English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peru: Ancash - Provinces & Places . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

Web links

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