Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Áncash Department
Detourmap lists 43 places in Áncash Department, Peru, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Huascarán. 21 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 43
- Oldest
- Chankillo 299 BC
- Little known
- 21 of 43
- Share of Peru
- 18%
Áncash Department 43
All 43, best known first.
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3.Huascarán National Park
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
World Heritage Site and national park in Peru
Elsewhere in Peru
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Áncash Department?
Huascarán. Mountain in the Peruvian province of Yungay. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Áncash Department?
43: 28 nature & landscapes and 15 archaeological & historic sites. 21 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Áncash Department?
Chankillo, dated to 299 BC. 2 of the 43 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Áncash Department here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Áncash Department if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Áncash Department is a first-level division of Peru, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.