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Huaraz

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Huaráz 

a city in Peru, capital of Ancash Department. Situated in the mountains, on the Santa River, at an elevation of 3,000 m. Population, 29,000 (1972). Huaráz is connected with the port city of Casma by a highway. Silver and lead are mined near by. Huaráz was extensively damaged by an earthquake in the Santa River valley on May 31,1970.



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Travelling from Casma to Huaraz (not very far distant from Lima), he found a plain covered with ruins and marks of ancient cultivation but now quite barren.
 
 
 
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