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Callejón de Huaylas

The Callejón de Huaylas is the valley of the upper Santa River in the Ancash region of northern Peru, running between the snow-capped Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra. It was a heartland of the Recuay culture in the first centuries CE and lies close to Chavín de Huántar. Its main town is Huaraz, and in 1970 an earthquake-triggered avalanche buried the town of Yungay.

Callejón de Huaylas
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Callejón de Huaylas. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/callejon-de-huaylas
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