Yanawayin Lake

Yanawayin Lake
Location Lima Region
Coordinates 11°07′36″S 76°32′7″W / 11.12667°S 76.53528°W / -11.12667; -76.53528Coordinates: 11°07′36″S 76°32′7″W / 11.12667°S 76.53528°W / -11.12667; -76.53528
Basin countries Peru
Surface elevation ≈4,900 m (16,100 ft)

Yanawayin (Quechua yana black, Ancash Quechua wayi house, "black house",[1][2] -n a suffix, other spellings Yanahuain, Yanahuin, Yanahuni, Yanahuani) is a lake in the central Peruvian Andes. It lies in the Lima Region, Huaral Province, Andamarca District, near the village of Yanawayin (Yanahuain).[3][4] The lake is situated at an altitude of about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft).

Landslide

The site made world headlines in 1971 when on March 18 a rock avalanche of 100,000 cubic metres (3,500,000 cu ft)[5] fell from an outcrop of jointed limestone about 400 metres (1,300 ft) above the lake. It created a wave of 30 metres (98 ft) that destroyed the Chungar Mining Company (Cia Minera Chungar, S.A.) camp on the shore, destroyed all the mines' surface facilities,[5] and killed 200–600 miners.[3][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacop. Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay Simipi Yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  2. ↑ Robert Beér, Armando Muyolemaj, Dr. Hernán S. Aguilarpaj. Vocabulario Comparativo Quechua Ecuatoriano - Quechua Ancashino, Castellano - English, Brighton. October 2006. (Spanish)
  3. 1 2 Petley, Dave (March 18, 2009). "38 years ago today – the Chungar landslide in Peru". American Geophysical Union (AGU). Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huaral Province (Lima Region) showing the lake (unnamed) near the village of Yanawayin (Yanahuain) and near the destroyed village of Chungar
  5. 1 2 3 Robert B. Jansen, ed. (1988). Advanced Dam Engineering for Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation. Google Books (Springer). p. 739. ISBN 9-7804-42243-975. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  6. ↑ Plafker, George; Eyzaguirre, V. Z. (1 January 1979). "7: Rock Avalanche and Wave at Chungar, Peru". In Barry Voight (ed.). Engineering Sites: Rockslides and Avalanches (1 ed.). Elsevier. pp. 269–279. ISBN 0-444-59801-4. Retrieved 4 May 2014.


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