Chacas
Sign in to saveSan Martín de Chacas is a Peruvian town, capital of the eponymous district and the Asunción Province, located in the east-central region of Ancash. It has an urban population of 2,082 located at 3,359 meters; and a district of 5,334 people. The district, located in the sub-basin of the Marañon River, has an area of 447.69 km2, which represents 85% of the province.
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Key facts
- Settlement.website
- www.munichacas.gob.pe
- Settlement.official_name
- San Martín de Chacas
- Settlement.native_name
- Chacas
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_caption
- From top, left to right: Chacas in 2012, procession of Mama Ashu, Italian houses of Lombard style, Baroque altarpiece of 1750, colonial houses and Camchas mountain, Route AN-107 with the snowy mountain Yanarraju.
- Settlement.image_flag
- Asuncionflag.png
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100px
- Settlement.image_seal
- Chacas-escudo.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100px
- Settlement.nickname
- City of the stones
- Settlement.motto
- Naturaleza, arte y fe para el mundo (Nature, art and faith for the world)
- Settlement.subdivision_type
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Asunción Province
- Area
- +447.69
- Elevation
- +3359
- Capital of
- Chacas District
- Image
- Chacas-cascohistórico.jpg
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- 1585
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Geography
- Location
- Terrain
- Hydrography
- Climate
- History
- Beginnings
- Chavin influence
- Recuay and Pashash
- Inca Period
- Colonial Period
- Independence
- Republican period
- Ugo de Censi
- S. XXI
- Tourism
- Folklore
- Dances
- Celebrations
- Festivities in honor of Mama Ashu
- References
- External links
San Martín de Chacas is a Peruvian town, capital of the eponymous district and the Asunción Province, located in the east-central region of Ancash. It has an urban population of 2,082 located at 3,359 meters; and a district of 5,334 people. The district, located in the sub-basin of the Marañon River, has an area of 447.69 km2, which represents 85% of the province.
Chacas was founded in the 1570s, but it is known that the territory now covered by the province to which it belongs, together with the provinces of Huari and Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald, are the most remote evidence of human presence in the Eastern Sierra Ancash, represented by the findings of caves and rock shelters prior to the Chavin culture. The ethnic group that was present in this place after the fall of the Chavin culture was the lordship of Huari.