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Ancash
Departamento de Áncash (Spanish) Anqash suyu (Quechua)
Ancash (Quechua: Anqash; Spanish: Áncashpronounced[ˈaŋkaʃ]) is a department and region in western Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is the city of Huaraz, and its largest city and port is Chimbote. The name of the region originates from the Quechua word anqash ('light, of little weight'), from anqas ('blue') or from anka ('eagle').[1][2]
^* Vocabulario comparativo quechua ecuatoriano – quechua ancashino – castellano – English Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (pdf)
^Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua(PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
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