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	Ayacucho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ayacucho is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.
		Ayacucho is famous for its large number of churches and for its religious celebrations during Holy Week.
		The jalatoro is similar to the Spanish encierro, except that the bulls are led by horses of the Morochucos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayacucho (262 words)

	INCALINK AYACUCHO
		As of that historical event, the nearby city of Huamanga adopted the name of Ayacucho, which became the capital of the province carrying that same name.
		The province or department of Ayacucho is a hilly territory, ripe with low mountains and narrow valleys covered with all types of cactus.
		Around the year 500, large factories that produced multicolored ceramics, influenced by the handicraft made in Nazca and by the religious symbols of Tiawanaku (currently Bolivia), became the center of a great empire that dominated all the highlands and coast of what is today Peru.
	www.incalink.com /CULTURAayacucho.htm (735 words)

	Peruline, online Travel guide for tourism and travel in Peru - Destinations in the highlands
		The climate in Ayacucho is usually dry and warm but between December and March temperatures may fall below zero and rain frequently sets in.
		The region moreover is famous for the decorated wooden cradles.
		The Plaza de Armas in Ayacucho is also called Plaza Sucre due to the knight statue of General José de Sucre.
	peruline.com /peru/travel_region_ayacucho.htm (505 words)

	Rumbos Online: Ayacucho in the Heart
		In the Ayacucho area, the nucleus of the Inca power was the administrative center of Vilcashuamán, with its impressive remains, typical of an Inca administrative center: the ushnu symbolical representation of the governing hierarchy the Temple of the Sun and state warehouses.
		The 1980's was the decade of terror and death in rural areas, that compelled the compulsive migration of the peasant population and increased the city of Ayacucho´s population from 70,000 inhabitants in 1981 to the 120,000 inhabitants it has today.
		This is because the political violence increased the emigration of the Ayacucho population from all the provinces towards Lima, Huancayo, Ica and other urban centers.
	www.rumbosonline.com /articles/13-42-destinoayacucho.htm (1251 words)

	INCA TOURS - Ayacucho - PPikimachay - Holy Week - Churches - Huamanga Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After its declining came the Chanca Regional State, and finally, the region was conquered by the Incas, who founded an administrative provincial center of great importance in the area of Vilcashuamán.
		Distant 1 km from the town is the Pampa de Ayacucho, a historical location where the Battle of Ayacucho that sealed the Independence of South America was held on December 9th, 1 824.
		Located 102 km from Ayacucho and about 3 h drive, it is an archaeological complex featuring a palace, a tower, the Inca bath (with a 13-corner stone) and a lagoon in the middle of the archaeological complex at 2 300 masl.
	www.inca-tours.com /Peru_Info/Peru_Places_to_Stay/Ayacucho.htm (1280 words)

	Ayacucho, Peru
		Ayacucho is a little visited but incredibly pleasant city.
		This is in large part due to the fact that access to Ayacucho is limited.
		Ayacucho is at an elevation of 2,761m / 8918ft, relatively low compared to many other towns in the Central Highlands.
	www.planetware.com /peru/ayacucho-per-ay-ay.htm (221 words)

	Puno: Instituto de Educación Rural Waqrani/ Caught in the Crossfire / g c i 275
		The Ayacucho dioceses was conservative, traditionalist in its pastoral and liturgical practices, had few social action programs (pointedly in the charity mode) and was distant from the peasant majority of the region.
		Although Sendero suffered several defeats in the region between 1987 and 1990, it recovered from these losses and kept the pressure on the Sur-Andino Church, the campesino federation and the political parties, as well as the government and the cooperatives.
		The regional context of Puno made it crucial and feasible to resist the demands to militarize the subversive conflict.
	www.gci275.com /crossfire/section3b.shtml (5543 words)

	Ayacucho and the Central Highlands, Peru
		Ayacucho means corner of death in Spanish, and this tucked-away corner of the Andes has seen plenty of bloodshed over the last five centuries, from the Incas battling the local Chancas to the 1980s uprising of the Shining Path, Peru’s most notorious terrorist movement.
		Nowhere is Peru’s colonial past more palpable than Ayacucho, the most stunning city of Peru’s Andes, with a gorgeous Catedral and nearly 30 other colonial churches, not to mention the charming village of Quinua and the ancient ruins of Wari.
		Ayacucho Walking Tour: The streets of this hidden jewel include Renaissance and baroque churches and the friendliest and most interesting market in Peru, where bubbling pots of corn stews, dozens of chichas, and huge rocks of fl salt are on display alongside a staggering array of countryside produce.
	www.moon.com /planner/peru/regions/ayacucho.html (388 words)

	Houston Chronicle: Holy Week is a bedrock of peace in violent village
		And before that, the Battle of Ayacucho was the decisive clash in Peru's war for independence in 1824, a victory that sealed the demise
		Ayacucho's version of the holiday is the best known, most elegant and intricate Holy Week celebration in the Americas.
		By the mid-1980s, tens of thousands of frightened locals left the region around Ayacucho for the growing slums of the capital of Lima.
	www.ericjlyman.com /easter.html (983 words)

	Features service articles - In the heart of the sierra: local talent at the service of the global economy - Department ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the 1980s, the Ayacucho region was the epicentre of the terrorist actions of the Shining Path.
		Today, the Ayacucho region is fighting with grinding poverty and high levels of unemployment in a fragile rural economy.
		This is key to the social and human development of women and their families in the Ayacucho region", comments ILO expert Mario Tueros from the Regional Office for the Americas in Lima.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/bureau/inf/features/06/peru.htm (624 words)

	Ayacucho Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ayacucho is a region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country.
		The region was one of the hardest hit by terrorism during the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path.
		The region is divided into 11 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular: provincia), which are composed of 12 districts (distritos, singular: distrito).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayacucho_Region (145 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		In many of the region's provinces, the commission uncovered evidence that military personnel systematically eliminated and "disappeared" civilians based on unfounded accusations of membership in the Shining Path or collaboration with insurgents.
		In the Ayacucho region, Humala captured 62.2 percent of the vote.
		Caballero said that in Ayacucho, two decades after the massacres perpetuated by members of the military and the Shining Path, communities continue to be neglected and abandoned, immersed in poverty and marginalised.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=33347 (1353 words)

	Wool Tapestry 'Ayacucho Birds'
		The Ayacucho region produces many beautiful textiles and was influenced by the Nazca and Paracas people who were even before the Incas.
		The Ayacucho region of Peru produces tapestries using wool of both sheep and alpaca which produces a very soft texture and longer yarns.
		Using a variety of vegetal and animal dyes, as well as minerals found in the region, there are close to 200 dyes available to use for the weaving of tapestries.
	peruhandicraft.nstemp.com /tapestries/tape47.htm (224 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:quy
		Burns, Donald H. and Pablo Alcócer H. Un análisis preliminar del discurso en quechua: Estudio léxico y gramatical del cuento Taklluscha y Benedicto en el quechua de Ayacucho.
		Trudell, Joel O. An ethnographic study of Quechua literacy practices among members of a Protestant church in Lima, Peru.
		Informe sobre los seminarios para estudios quechuas, Ayacucho, 8 de setiembre a 15 de noviembre de 1973.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=quy (373 words)

	Ayacucho, Huari and Vilcashuaman - Information from Real Peru
		As well as this, Ayacucho is famous for having some of the most interesting architecture in Peru.
		You can still visit most of them (one is now the Regional Museum) and it's well worth taking the time to step off the square into their shady courtyards and imagine that you're stepping back in time to the 1600s...
		Ayacucho is famous for its handicrafts and jewellers.
	www.therealperu.co.uk /guide/ayacucho.aspx (608 words)

	Serve World Revolution
		Clear and concrete facts show that this region continues to be the main battlefield between the armed revolution and the armed counter-revolution; while the reactionaries dream of sweeping away the people's war it resists all assaults and continues to be like a thunderstorm whose center is Ayacucho.
		Thus the war was not conceived in terms of one single region but in terms of simultaneous though uneven development in several regions, with one of them principal (which one that is could change according to necessity), all within the framework of a strategically centralized and tactically decentralized plan.
		In the central region in November of that same year a state of emergency was declared in the province of Alcides Carrion in Pasco department, under the command just mentioned, and this later spread to the important mining province of Pasco.
	www.blythe.org /peru-pcp/docs_en/world-ser.htm (9408 words)

	PERU BP.27 - Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge
		All the materials used are made from animals native to the region (alpaca, sheep etc.) and coloured with traditional vegetal dyes.
		The teachers are displaced indigenous women from the rural areas of Ayacucho and the pupils are indigenous children.
		The Ministry of Education is incorporating it into the formal curriculum of the schools in the Ayacucho region.
	www.unesco.org /most/bpik27.htm (1021 words)

	Our Artisans
		He was born in Huaral, region of Lima in 1952.
		He was born in Ayacucho in 1949, birthplace of master artisans.
		He was born in the district of Vinchos, in the region of Ayacucho in 1952.
	www.peruartsandcrafts.com /bio.htm (675 words)

	radiofreeradio / Ayacucho
		Ayacucho is a 30-minute radio documentary about the history of the Shining Path of Peru, the current political situation of the country, the importance of memory and about my journey to the Peruvian Andes.
		Ayacucho was conceived as an attempt to balance the usual coverage of Latin America and specifically the Peruvian 2006 presidential elections.
		I spent most of the time in the region of Ayacucho, and its capital, Huamanga (also known as Ayacucho).
	radiofreeradio.net (593 words)

	Place:Peru - Genealogy
		The kingdom of Chimor, and the great oracle city of Pachacamac, where believers from all over the land came to worship, were conquered by the Sapa Inka’s armies in their conquests over western South America centuries after the Huari culture died out.
		In fact, only the emperor was called “Sapa Inka”, the tribe from which the empire originated had its origins in what became the capital of Cusco, and the language of the empire, Quechua (Quichua), was of a neighboring tribe.
		After almost five years of war, it ended with the loss of the department of Tarapacá and the provinces of Tacna (city), Tacna Region, Peru and Arica, Arica Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile, in the Atacama region.
	www.werelate.org /wiki/Place:Peru (1458 words)

	Untitled Document
		The capital is the city of Ayacucho (although the local people still use the old name, Huamanga) is located at 2,761 m.a.s.l.
		It was the site of the famous Battle of Ayacucho, where the independence of the country and expulsion of the Spanish troops was confirmed.
		In Ayacucho it is an impressive faith act close to a collective drama, that goes on for a week and with the entire population participating.
	www.perutourism.com /Destinations/der13b.htm (1121 words)

	INCALINK NAZCA LINES
		In the Cosmo vision of the ancient Andean people, the gods reside in the mountains and the prayers asking for rainfall are said to the mountains (prayers which today incorporate Catholic icons).
		In Nazca, there is information of cult which still reveres the mountains in the region of Ayacucho and even of some worship to local Nazca hills where evidence has been found of both ancient and modern rituals (proof that these cults continue in a very discrete manner).
		The Nazca region is an ancient center of pilgrimage.
	www.incalink.com /nazcalines/NAZCALINES5.htm (1099 words)

	CSRP: News of the PW - Reports
		The Peruvian security forces reported a clash between their troops and PCP fighters in the region of Vizcatan (in the department of Ayacucho) on March 12, 1998.
		It was in the central Andes highlands--the department of Ayacucho, along with the neighboring departments of Huancavelica and Apurímac--where the first revolutionary base areas of the People's War arose.
		On December 5, Fujimori extended the state of emergency in nine departments--from the south-central highlands of Huancavelica, Ayacucho, Cusco, and Apurímac to the central mountain region of Pasco and Junín, to the northeastern jungle areas of Huanuco, San Martín and Loreto.
	www.csrp.org /newsrpt.htm (5015 words)

	United Bible Societies -- News from Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the mountainous AYACUCHO region of Peru, the Quechua people have often found themselves caught between two terrifying forces: the fear-inspiring tactics of the communist terrorists, Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), and the violent repression of the Peruvian armed forces, who frequently accuse the local people of complicity.
		In 1987 the Quechua: Ayacucho Bible was published, thanks to the work of translator Rómulo Sauñe, who became a martyr at the hands of Shining Path in September 1992.
		They were delighted when they discovered that the PBS had brought a large quantity of Scriptures to Ayacucho and especially pleased to receive a generous gift of Scriptures for their churches to use.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_318/318_02.htm (681 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Peru leader seeks death penalty
		His call follows Saturday's attack in the coca-growing Ayacucho region, in which eight people were killed.
		Mr Garcia's call came two days after five policemen and three civilians, including a boy, were killed in the attack in the mountainous jungle of Ayacucho region, about 330km (205 miles) south-east of the capital, Lima.
		It was a carefully planned ambush during a police crackdown on illegal cocoa-growing in the region, officials said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6192175.stm (429 words)

	WARI TOURS - Ayacucho Wari Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		En la Emancipación, la Pampa de Ayacucho es escenario de la Batalla que pone fin a la dominación extranjera de más de cuatro siglos y otorga libertad e independencia a las naciones americanas del yugo español.
		Gracias por preferir siempre nuestros Servicios y acorde a nuestro lema de Nosotros conocemos mejor Ayacucho porque somos ayacuchanos lo esperamos siempre en su periplo a este privilegiado lugar del Perú para juntos disfrutar de su música, su comida, artesanía y especialmente de su primaveral clima los 365 días del año.
		Places to visit: Main Square(Sucre Park), Museum of Popular Art "Joaquín López Antay", The House of the Marquéz de Mozobamba, The Church of San Agustin, The Cathedral, The National University San Cristóbal of Huamanga, The House of the Alcala´s window, The Prefecture and tre Prison of the National hero María Parado de Bellido, and others.
	www.ayacuchowaritours.com (569 words)

	NOVICA - Painted wood retablo, 'Chapel of Bethlehem' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Diverse scenes representative of the Ayacucho region of Peru comprise this hand-crafted retablo, a unique style of Andean folk art.
		He specializes in the creations of retablos, a kind of reverent diorama-altar typical of the Ayacucho region of Peru.
		He learned this technique as a boy in school, when he was 17 years old and living in Ayacucho, where his parents moved when he was just 2 years old.
	www.novica.com /itemdetail/index.cfm?pID=61305 (290 words)

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