Yanawayin Lake
| Yanawayin Lake | |
|---|---|
| Location | Lima Region |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Basin countries | Peru |
| Surface elevation | ≈4,900 m (16,100 ft) |
Yanawayin (Quechua yana black, Ancash Quechua wayi house, "black house",[1][2] -n a suffix, other spellings Yanahuain, Yanahuin, Yanahuni, Yanahuani) is a lake in the central Peruvian Andes. It lies in the Lima Region, Huaral Province, Andamarca District, near the village of Yanawayin (Yanahuain).[3][4] The lake is situated at an altitude of about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft).
Landslide
The site made world headlines in 1971 when on March 18 a rock avalanche of 100,000 cubic metres (3,500,000 cu ft)[5] fell from an outcrop of jointed limestone about 400 metres (1,300 ft) above the lake. It created a wave of 30 metres (98 ft) that destroyed the Chungar Mining Company (Cia Minera Chungar, S.A.) camp on the shore, destroyed all the mines' surface facilities,[5] and killed 200–600 miners.[3][5][6]
See also
References
- ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacop. Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay Simipi Yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
- ↑ Robert Beér, Armando Muyolemaj, Dr. Hernán S. Aguilarpaj. Vocabulario Comparativo Quechua Ecuatoriano - Quechua Ancashino, Castellano - English, Brighton. October 2006. (Spanish)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huaral Province (Lima Region) showing the lake (unnamed) near the village of Yanawayin (Yanahuain) and near the destroyed village of Chungar
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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