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Huánuco is a city in central Peru. It had a population of 75,000 as of 2007 and in 2014 it had a population of 172,924. It is the capital of the Huánuco Region and the Huánuco District. It is the seat of the diocese of Huánuco. The metropolitan city of Huanuco is 170,000 hab (2011, urban pop, INEI). It has three districts, Huanuco (head), Amarilis, and Pillco Marca. In this city, the Higueras river meets the Huallaga river, one of the largest rivers in the country. The city of Huánuco was founded by Spanish conquistador Gómez de Alvarado in 1539, in the Inca town of Yarowilca. In 1541, the city was moved to its current location in the Pillco Valley. It is served by the Alférez FAP David Figueroa Fernandini Airport. One of the main highways of the country passes by Huanuco, communicating Lima-Callao with Tingo Maria and Pucallpa in the Peruvian Amazonia.
Huánuco is a city in Peru.
Huánuco may also refer to:
- Huánuco Province, in Peru
- Huánuco Region, same
- Huanuco Airport, the city's airport
Usage examples of "huanuco".
I should finally get the hang of chewing coca here in the Upper Huallaga Valley just north of Huanuco, Peru.
The Huanuco Valley was little short of an industrial supply operation, churning out tons of the leaves that produced the stimulant that kept the Incan empire running.
Vast tracts of land between Huanuco and San Martin were deemed suitable for settlement and the Peruvian interior became a free-for-all.
You snake through Huanuco in your beaten-up taxi, skirting the city market where eight parakeets are sold in a cage the size of a shoe box and chickens are kept in string netting bags and lean, mangy, hungry, flea-ridden dogs slope around the place looking for shade.
When they came to Huarac-tambo, in the neighbourhood of the city of Huanuco, all the Chancas fled with their captain Anco Ayllo, and besides the Chancas other tribes followed this chief.
So they entered the forests between Chachapoyas and Huanuco, and went on to the province of Ruparupa.
There are two varieties in commerce, the Huanuco Coca, or Erythroxylon Coca, which comes from Bolivia and has leaves of a brownish-green colour, oval, entire and glabrous, with a rather bitter taste, and Peruvian Coca, the leaves of which are much smaller and a pale-green colour.