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By 1975, Yungay Norte was simply known as "Yungay", with the site of the destroyed town known as "Yungay Viejo". The new city already had electricity, running water, clinics, schools, a church, and permanent housing. [27]: 114–115 By the early 1990s Yungay had recovered to its pre-avalanche population. [9]
Yungay Viejo (2,500 m) as seen from the cemetery hill. The light shaded area shows the location of the landslide (ice, mud, debris avalanche), in which a part of the western flank of Huascaran Norte broke (6,652 m). Yungay Nuevo is behind the shaded area in the center.
Photograph taken after the 1970 avalanche showing the buried towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca Main article: 1970 Huascarán debris avalanche On 31 May 1970, the Ancash earthquake caused a substantial part of the north side of the mountain to collapse in an avalanche with an estimated 80 million cubic metres (2.8 billion cubic feet) of ice, mud ...
The body of an American mountaineer has been discovered by a pair of fellow US climbers 22 years after he went missing following an avalanche in the Peruvian Andes.. American brothers Ryan Cooper ...
Yungay is located in the Callejón de Huaylas on Río Santa at an elevation of approximately 2,500 meters, 450 km north of Lima, the country's capital.East of the small town are the mountain ridges of snow-covered Cordillera Blanca, with Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain, no more than 15 km east of Yungay.
Yungay Valley was explored for the first time by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533 during reconnaissance expeditions from Cajamarca commanded by Hernando de Soto and Miguel de Estete. Dominican Order members founded the town and convent of Santo Domingo de Yungay on August 4, 1540, at the initiative of Father Domingo de Santo Tomás , the ...
An avalanche barreled down a Utah mountain range over the weekend, coating vehicles with the white stuff.. Many regions, including the Beehive State, are currently experiencing heavy snowfall as a ...
Casey Mittelstadt ended a 19-game scoring drought with a tiebreaking goal in the third period and the Colorado Avalanche beat the NHL-leading Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Tuesday night. Mittelstadt last ...