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    Huascarán (Spanish pronunciation: [waskaˈɾan]) (Quechua: Waskaran), Nevado Huascarán or Mataraju is a mountain located in Yungay Province, Department of...
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    Huascarán National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Huascarán) is a Peruvian national park that comprises most of the mountain range known as Cordillera...
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    The 1970 Huascarán Debris Avalanche occurred on May 31, 1970, when a debris avalanche and mudflow triggered by the Ancash earthquake destroyed the Peruvian...
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    range"), which has many peaks covered with snow and ice, such as the Huascarán and the Alpamayo. Between these two mountain ranges, the Santa River flows...
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    reported to be the farthest point on the surface from Earth's center, with Huascarán a very close second. The summit of Chimborazo is the fixed point on Earth...
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    town are the mountain ridges of snow-covered Cordillera Blanca, with Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain, no more than 15 km east of Yungay. Yungay is...
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    plateau as well as the highest peak of the country, the 6,768 m (22,205 ft) Huascarán. The third region is the selva (jungle), a wide expanse of flat terrain...
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    Earth's centre, although the southern summit of Peru's tallest mountain, Huascarán, is another contender. Both have elevations above sea level more than...
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    Alpamayo in Huascarán National Park, Peru...
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    del Perú – Día del Maestro Archived 2007-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, huascaran.edu.pe; accessed 5 September 2015. (in Spanish) "Republic Act No. 10743...
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    the second-worst avalanche-related disaster recorded, after the 1970 Huascarán avalanche. List of deadliest avalanches Rigopiano avalanche White War...
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    topographical and geographical contexts. La sierra from the Altiplano to Huascarán, for instance, is more commonly connected to language families in both...
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    summit of Ojos del Salado is the highest point of Chile. The summit of Huascarán is the highest point of Peru and the Tropics. The summit of Nevado Sajama...
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    (19,101 ft) El Toro, 5,830 m (19,127 ft) Huandoy, 6,395 m (20,981 ft) Huascarán, 6,768 m (22,205 ft) Jirishanca, 6,094 m (19,993 ft) Pumasillo, 5,991 m...
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  • Earth's centre than the summit of Everest. The second-farthest summit, Huascarán (also in the Andes), is only about 10 metres closer to the Earth's centre...
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    Earth's centre, although the southern summit of Peru's tallest mountain, Huascarán, is another contender. Both have elevations above sea level more than...
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    Cordillera Blanca, mainly Mount Huascarán, which is considered the tallest mountain in tropics, all of them located in Huascarán National Park which UNESCO...
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    November 1987 Parraguirre landslide (est. ratio 2.5) and the May 1970 Huascarán landslide (est. ratio 4). This additional volume would explain the large...
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    Cordillera Blanca (category Huascarán National Park)
    690 ft) high and 722 individual glaciers. The highest mountain in Peru, Huascarán, at 6,768 metres (22,205 ft) high, is located there. The Cordillera Blanca...
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    triggered by the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake. China 1718 3. 22,000 1970 Huascarán avalanche; triggered by the 1970 Ancash earthquake Peru 1970 4. 10,000–30...
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    under repair in the Lofjord; next to her, on her starboard side, is the repair ship Huascaran; Admiral Scheer is also moored behind anti-torpedo nets...
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    Age". Discover. September 2002. (discussion of Woods Hole research) "Huascaran (Peru) Ice Core Data". NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program. 1995. Dansgaard...
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    Antarctica (EF) Denali, Alaska, United States (EF) Dome Fuji, Antarctica (EF) Huascarán, Peru (EF) Ismoil Somoni Peak, Tajikistan (EF) Jengish Chokusu, China/Kyrgyzstan...
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    due Cite’ Hyderabad Section was completed under the direction of T.P. Huascaran, who had published the remaining volumes of the astrographic catalog and...
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  • Chan Chan Chavin Cuzco Historic Centre of Lima Machu Picchu Arequipa Huascarán Nazca Manu Rio Abiseo Caral The United Nations Educational, Scientific...
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    inside Huascarán National Park in Ancash, Peru. It is the second-tallest peak of the Cordillera Blanca section of the Andes, after Huascarán. These two...
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    on the Dominance system and its dominance is 30.6%. Its parent peak is Huascaran Sur and the topographic isolation is 148.8 kilometers. This information...
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    North Island, New Zealand Mount Cereme  Indonesia 3,078 2,792 286 Semeru Huascarán  Peru 6,746 2,776 3,970 Ojos del Salado Mount Arfak  Indonesia 2,955 2...
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    a.s.l., it was destroyed by a landslide that originated at the nearby Huascarán mountain due to the 1970 Ancash earthquake. 5,000 people disappeared during...
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