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Yucay
Sign in to saveYucay () is a town in southern Peru. It is the capital of the Yucay District, which is near the center of Urubamba Province in the Cusco Region of southern Peru.
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- Locality
- Yucay
- Region
- Cusco
- Country
- Perú
- Population
- 0
- Timezone
- America/Lima
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Yucay District
- Elevation
- 2857
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Capital of
- Yucay District
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- Yucay.jpg
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- Yucay
- postal code
- 08665
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Yucay () is a town in southern Peru. It is the capital of the Yucay District, which is near the center of Urubamba Province in the Cusco Region of southern Peru.
The area where Yucay is located is commonly called the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Many Inca ruins are in the Sacred Valley near the Urubamba River and extending up the nearby hillsides in agricultural terraces called andenes. The town is located at an elevation of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yucay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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