“Yungay: ... the most beautiful picture than can be admired....”
Antonio Raimondi, June of 1869

YUNGAY is a Peruvian province, with beautiful landscapes, which were inmortalized by Italian naturalistic  sage Antonio Raimondi with the qualification ¡NEC PLUS ULTRA¡, it is also considered the capital of the highest tropical mountain range of the world: The White mountain range. The Province of Yungay occupies part of  Huaylas Valley, Conchucos Valley (Yanama), the coast of Ancash(Quillo) and is located at north of the City of Lima, capital of the Republica of Peru, South America; between km 444 to  km 468.

The inhabitants of the province of Yungay, conform towns with an history and a millenarian culture that have their origins in nerly the beginnings of the civilization, whose vestiges of 10.600 BC in the Guitarrero Cave" demonstrate that this land was the cradle of agriculture in America. Since thousands years ago, the ancestral yungainos saw often bloom, disappear and reconstruct again their cities. The land fertility, the benevolent climate and the natural beauty of the territory caused that their inhabitants faced earthquakes and avalanches that time and time again destroyed the towns of the province, but the Yungainos always was there, challenging before the natural, proud disasters by to have been born in this one fertile and beautiful land, reconstructing their cities with the high forehead always watching snow-covered mounts their eter partners. They are dumb witnesses of which it was YUNGAY in the past, the vestiges of towns in Queushu, Marccayoc, Etzahuain, Huansakay, Jato Viejo, Collo-Jirca and others (all with greater antiquity of 1.500 years), the Town of Ancash (1725), Ranrahirca (1962) and recently disappeared city of Yungay (1970).

Passed the tragedy of the 31,05,1970, the Province of Yungay has recovered thanks to the strength of the survivors and the iron union of its Districts, those that together conform a true paradise admired by thousands of tourists, who find variety, climates costumary, ecological floors, and places of incomparable beauty and majesty.

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