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	Peru Travel Guide by iLatinTravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cordillera Blanca (White Mountain Range), in the Central Peruvian Andes, in spite of being only 40 Km (19 ml) long, has become a favorite for both trekking and to adventure walks.
		It is the south section of the western chain of North Andes, located between the departments of Ancash and Huánuco, to the southeast of the Cordillera Blanca (White Mountain Range).
		One of the reasons for its reputation is that the average altitude during the trail is aprox.
	www.ilatintravel.com /webapp/ilatintravel/articulo.jsp?cod=19988100 (343 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cordillera Huayhuash is a mountain range in the Andes of Peru.
		It is possible to penetrate into the mountains as far as the village of Llamac (3300 m), reached by road in the late 1990s.
		Until the group's effective defeat in 1992 the Cordillera Huayhuash was used as a remote base by the Shining Path.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cordillera_Huayhuash (564 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"A hidden treasure" The Huayhuash circuit is considered one of the most beautiful routes in the world with glaciated peaks, carpeted green valleys and trout-filled lakes.
		The name Huayhuash is derived from Quechua, the native language of Peru that means "weasel," a cunning and agile animal of the Andes.
		Paso Portachuelo de Huayhuash (4 785 m).Possibility of leaving to Cajatambo or Churín in a day and means.
	www.apuperuvian.com /english/treks_cordillerahuayhuash.html (145 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru
		Cordillera Blanca is higher, at the massive peak of Huascaran).
		Huayhuash is not yet a park (although it deserves to be), but is currently a Reserved Zone, which recognizes the rights and traditional land use by the eight communities of the area.
		Denali is at 63 degrees north latitude, the Himalaya at 28 degrees north latitude, and the Cordillera Huayhuash at 10 degrees south latitude.
	www.photoseek.com /peru/Huayhuash.html (2041 words)

	Centro Desarrollo Huayhuash
		In December of 2002 El Centro de Desarrollo Huayhuash (Huayhuash Development Center) was formed in the town of Chiquian with representatives from nearly all of the surrounding communities attending.
		The formation of the Huayhuash Development Center was motivated by (1) the rapid increase of mining interests, specifically Mitsui which has already caused environmental degradation during their exploration phase (including water and soil pollution effecting two communities) and (2) the desire to develop a sustainable economic base and tourism industry for the local people.
		The second objective would empower the people of the Huayhuash in their effort to regain their customary rights to be a part of the decisions about the land upon which their future generations will live.
	huaylas.com /cdhuayhuash/maps.htm (505 words)

	SummitPost - Cordillera Huayhuash RANGE -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		In spite of this, climbers and trekkers are heading to the Huayhuash in increasing numbers to enjoy the world class trekking and climbing in a remote and relatively unspoiled area.
		During the early 1990s, the Cordillera Huayhuash was little visited by foreigners due to terrorist activity by the Sendero Luminoso (“shining path”) guerilla group.
		The Cordillera Huayhuash is a sub-range of the western Andes (Cordillera Occidental), characterized by sharp glaciated peaks and high alpine valleys.
	www.summitpost.org /area/range/236605/cordillera-huayhuash-range.html (1870 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash Trek, Peru tours, South America travel - Latin American Escapes
		Even though Cordillera Huayhuash belongs to the same mountain system as the Cordillera Blanca, Huayhuash includes the group of mountains of the Paso de Kashapunta to the north and Laguna to the south.
		The Cordillera Huayhuash is more spectacular than the Blanca, and also a more strenuous hike with higher altitudes and more climbing involved.
		The Cordillera Huayash is considered a moderate to mostly strenuous trek, including consistent uphill hiking at altitudes of 12-15,000 feet.
	nt1.adventuresports.com /travel/LAescapes/Trip109.htm (1362 words)

	Peru: The Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Huayhuash. Climbing, mountaineering and trekking adventure holidays and ...
		This is an incredible climbing and trekking area, with fascinating flora and fauna and the remains of several pre-Inca and Inca cultures.
		The focal point of the area is the Callejón de Huaylas, the name given to the Río Santa valley which separates the Cordillera Negra (west) from the Cordillera Blanca (east) in the department of Ancash in Peru's northern highlands.
		The Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash are the highest of the country's astonishing total of 20 glaciated mountain ranges.
	www.santacruzexpeditions.com /mountain.htm (162 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash
		The Cordillera Huayhuash is a compact, yet utterly impressive range of mountains in central Peru.
		Yet the Huayhuash is perhaps the most magnificent range in the Peruvian Andes.
		Although Huaraz is nearly four hours by bus from the Huayhuash area, it is a far better place to acclimatize than Chiquian, which is much smaller and has almost no facilities.
	www.tahoebackcountry.net /features/huayhuash/huayhuash1.htm (552 words)

	USGS P 1386-I -- Peru - Cordilleras - Occidental
		The Cordillera Huayhuash, between lat 10°11' and 10°26'S. and long 76°50' and 77°00'W., is part of the Cordillera Occidental of Perú.
		The Cordillera de Chonta consists of a series of ice-capped peaks extending in a northerly direction for about 50 km between lat 12°37' and 13°07'S. and long 75°00' and 75°30'W. and is in the western branch of the Andes (fig.
		The Cordillera de Huanzo is a glacierized mountain range within the Cordillera Occidental that extends 57 km in a northwesterly direction between lat 14°30' and 15°01'S. and long 72°50' and 73°15'W. (fig.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1386i/peru/occident.html (1636 words)

	Peru Holidays: Cordillera Blanca & Huayhuash Trek - Peru
		The Cordillera Blanca is without question one of the most magnificent mountain ranges in the world.
		Protected as the Huascaran National Park, the Cordillera is one of the earth's treasured natural heritages with 20 snow capped peaks rising above 6,000 mt - 19,680 ft. Its highest peak, Huascaran (6,768 mt-22m205 ft) is the world's highest mountain in a tropical zone.
		In the Cordillera de Huyahuash, we descend through farmland from the town of Chiquian towards the Pativilca River and visit the southern part of the range.
	www.condorjourneys-adventures.com /peru_Huayhuash.asp (1718 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru
		The Huayhuash is 50 km southeast of the Cordillera Blanca yet utterly different.
		The time-honored trek in the Cordillera Huayhuash is a 12-day loop around the entire range that begins and ends in the village of Chiquián.
		The next camps are at the village of Huayhuash and then on to Laguna Viconga, where hot springs lie a mile to the southwest.
	www.moon.com /planner/peru/mustsee/crd_huayhuash.html (897 words)

	Sherpa Escorted Expeditions: Peru, Cordillera Huayhuash
		A bustling town of 80 thousand inhabitants, Huaraz nestles in a broad, deep valleyknown as the Callejon de Huaylas,, which is flanked by the Cordillera Negra to the west and by the imposing Cordillera Blanca to the east.
		We cross the Portachuelo de Huayhuash pass (4,750m) and are rewarded with views of the Cordillera Raura, a neighbouring range of smaller peaks.
		At the pass, we are treated to some spectacular views of the southern peaks of the Huayhuash as well as the Cordillera Raura to the east.
	www.sherpa-walking-holidays.co.uk /tours/escorted/lahdos.htm (3076 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash Trek - Trekking in Peru: The peaks of the Huayhuash, plus Machu Picchu
		Cliff Greenman, San Jose CA The fantastic ice range of the Cordillera Huayhuash is renowned for knife-edged 20,000-foot peaks that attract mountaineers from around the world.
		Ascending from a subtropical habitat, we cross a pass at 15,500 feet to enter the eastern flanks of the Huayhuash massif.
		Passing through the traditional village of Huayhuash, we circle west, crossing mountain passes between glaciated pinnacles to spectacular Laguna Jahuacocha, nestled in a cirque of massive snow peaks including Rondoy (19,289').
	www.wildernesstravel.com /itins/cordhuay.html (551 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash Trek - Carhuacocha - Diablo Mudo - Jahuacocha
		Cordillera Huayhuash Trek - Carhuacocha - Diablo Mudo - Jahuacocha
		This first time after the breakfast in the hotel the guide and the other personal will be go to pick up for you to the hotel, we will start the travel at 7:00am.
		After this we will do down to Huayhuash for about 2 hours half where we can see trapecio mount in the west side.
	www.cordillerablancaclimbing.com /huayhuashtrek.htm (188 words)

	Trekking holidays in peru. Trek the Cordillera Huayhuash, Huaraz, Peru.
		The stunning Cordillera Huayhuash, one of the most dramatic mountain areas anywhere in the Andes, forms a constant back-drop on our rewarding thirteen day trek, the main feature of this tour.
		The Huayhuash trekking tour can be complemented by our 5 day extension to Cusco and Machu Picchu, our Cusco extension with the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, or one of our Amazon Rainforest extensions: into the rainforest wildlife paradise of the Tambopata Reserve or our 5-9 day jungle expedition into Manu National Park.
		This is flanked to the east by the Cordillera Blanca, the mountain range with the highest concentration of peaks over 6000 metres outside the Himalayas.
	www.andeantrails.co.uk /peruhy-dos.htm (2303 words)

	Sherpa Escorted Expeditions: Peru, Cordillera Huayhuash
		A bustling town of 80,000 inhabitants, Huaraz lies amid the unsurpassed scenic splendour of the Callejón de Huaylas and is the ideal base from which to explore the region.
		As we approach the Cordillera Huayhuash we have the first spectacular views (weather permitting) of its sheer sided mountains.
		We cross the pass of Portachuelo de Huayhuash (4750m) and are rewarded with views to the southeast of the nearby, but hitherto unseen, Cordillera Raura - a neighbouring, more isolated range.
	www.sherpa-walking-holidays.co.uk /tours/escorted/lahdosep.htm (2779 words)

	3,350 metros mas cerca de las estrellas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Huayhuash es la segunda cadena montañosa mas alta del mundo en la region tropical, despues de la Cordillera Blanca, inmediatamente al norte.
		La Cordillera Huayhuash es representativa de los ecosistemas andinos; posee una gran biodiversidad; cuenta con una variedad de ecosistemas y tiene un significativo potencial turistico gracias a su incomparable belleza escenica.
		Huayhuash es, en opinión de los entendidos, uno de los circuitos turísticos más atractivos del mundo.
	www.chiquian.com /huayhuash.htm (1282 words)

	Huayhuash Circuit Hiking, Peru — Trekking the Cordillera Huayhuash
		Huayhuash Circuit Hiking, Peru Trekking the Cordillera Huayhuash
		In 2006 the "reserved zone" status of the Huayhuash range may be dropped.
		The Cordillera Huayhuash mountain range is isolated, rugged and challenging.
	www.i-needtoknow.com /huayhuash/index.html (256 words)

	Cordillera Huayhuash
		It is necessary to travel a considerable distance from the central range to find ground lower than 3000 m, even on valley floors, and the Cordillera Huayhuash is often taken to include this much larger area.
		The area is barely populated at all, with what hamlets there are being very small and generally only found below 4000 m (the snowline is found at approximately 4800 m).
		Some mining takes place in the area, so to the north of the mountains there is an unsurfaced road leading up to as high as 4750 m.
	www.virtualperu.net /sierra_cordillerahuayhuash.html (218 words)

	Nuestra montana - mountaineering in Peru - Expeditions to cordilllera Blanca - Huayhuash
		Considered within one of the more beautiful circuits of trekking of the world, in Huayhuash still it is possible to perceive the real sense of the adventure in the Peruvian Andes.
		During these days it is possible to observe several of the mountains that shape this mountain chain and also, from Chiquian, you will see the dangerous walls that belong to the cordillera which are worldwide known because of their difficult ascent (you will find here the Siula grande west face-20, 814 ft. – 6,344 m.
		In this point we will be entering towards the side the west of the cordillera Huayhuash.
	www.sergiorc.8m.com /english/des3.htm (931 words)

	Huaraz and the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
		Chavín de Huántar: Built nearly 2,000 years before the Incas, this center of the Chavín Culture includes underground tunnels that lead to the Lanzón, a carved rock pillar that was the center of a cult that spread across the Andes.
		Cordillera Huayhuash: Spend two weeks circumnavigating this stunning range, with some of the finest mountain scenery on earth.
		Cordillera Negra: This often-overlooked range, just west of the Cordillera Blanca, offers challenging mountain-bike routes with panoramas of glaciers and snow peaks.
	www.moon.com /planner/peru/regions/huaraz.html (269 words)

	CORDILLERA BLANCA & HUAYHUASH
		The Cordillera Blanca, the 'White Range', is the highest equatorial mountain range in the world, its snowy nevados providing fantastic alpine panoramas, including Peru's highest mountain, Huascaran (6798m).
		The Cordillera Huayhuash lies a little further south and has recently been made famous by Joe Simpson and his book and film 'Touching the Void'.
		We are specialists in adventure holidays, walking holidays, trekking holidays, cycling holidays, biking holidays, cultural tours, small groups, family holidays, safari holidays, adventure travel, overland journeys, multi activity holidays, winter snow activity holidays, wildlife holidays and award winning eco tours and vacations.
	www.exodus.co.uk /holidays/tpc.html (372 words)

	Cordillera de Huayhuash - Viajeros.com
		Desde el 24 de diciembre del 2002, la cordillera de Huayhuash (sur de Huaraz), ha sido declarada reserva natural, un gran paso de inicio para conservar intacto este espléndido lugar al que cada año llegan expediciones de todo el mundo con el fin de realizar uno de los circuitos de trekking más hermosos del mundo.
		Ahora sí estaremos seguros que las compañías mineras que ya han destruido gran parte de nuestra cordillera negra y blanca, se mantendrán alejadas de este lugar, pero esto será una tarea que competerá sobre todo a quienes nos preocupamos por la conservación de nuestras zonas naturales.
		La cordillera de Huayhuash presenta 6 montañas de más de seis mil metros de altitud y unas 10 que sobrepasan los 5,000 m.
	www.viajeros.com /article56.html (1370 words)

	Huayhuash Circuit Hiking, Peru - FAQS (Frequently Asked Questions)
		Cordillera Huayhuash: Select Treks and Climbs, by Jeremy Frimer, 2005.
		Cordillera Huayhuash: Perú (in Spanish), by Adam Kolff
		Trails of the Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash of Peru, by Jim Bartle, 1981.
	www.i-needtoknow.com /huayhuash/faqs/08.html (598 words)

	Cordillera Blanca Adventures, Huaraz - PERU
		cordillera blanca Huascaran Huaraz trekking Peru Huayhuash climbing mountaineering ecoadventures adventure travel ecotours ecotourism pre-inca archaeology chavin huantar ecoadventures ecotours peru inca inka Peru's experts in trekking and climbing expeditions in the Cordillera Blanca & the Cordillera Huayhuash.
		he Cordillera Blanca, in the heart of the tropical Andes is Peru’s showpiece, a wonderland of ice-encrusted peaks glistening against the bright blue sky.
		Ceremonial remains, and even mummies found in the top of snow-capped peaks, recognizes Peruvians as the oldest climbers recorded in the history of mountaineering.
	www.cordillerablanca.org /corblaCRPengl.html (446 words)

	Andes Running Adventures - Blanca & Huayhuash High Mountain Challenge 150 Mile Multi-Stage Adventure Run
		The first portion of the trip will be running a 40 mile multi-day circuit in Cordillera Blanca, the highest tropical mountain range in the world.
		After a night of rest in Huaraz, we depart to the town of Chiquian to run a 100 mile multi-day circuit of the Cordillera Huayhuash.
		The icy, jagged edged Huayhuash range is only 25 miles long and it contains 7 mountains over 20,000', including Mount Yerupajá (21,765') the second highest peak in Perú.
	www.andesadventures.com /run1sum.htm (463 words)

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