The city of Yungay capital of the county of the same name, located to 2548 msnm and 55 km to the north of Huaraz, for the same route that unites to all the towns of the Alley of Huaylas. Yungay, destroyed totally by the earthquake-avalanche of 1970, and reconstructed to two kilometers to the north of their original location, their development and importance is in process of consolidating. |
So that of the old city it is only photographic memory. In the avalanche that threw from the north pick of the Huascarán and it covered the city, perished near 12 thousand people. The white cristo located in the cemetery remembers the great alluvium and earthquake. In the same way, the four palms of the old Square of Weapons stayed, it's also the starting point of the highway that drives toward the lakes of LLanganuco. |
