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5 unusual facts about Pasco


2009 Ligas Superiores del Peru

For the 2009, they were nine the Departmental Confederacies that have determined to adopt them: Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Huánuco, Lambayeque, Pasco, Piura, Puno and Tumbes.

2010 Ligas Superiores del Peru

For the 2010, they are nine the Departmental Confederacies that have determined to adopt them: Arequipa, Cajamarca, Callao, Cusco, Huánuco, Lambayeque, Pasco, Piura, Puno and Tumbes.

Compania Minera Atacocha

It operates a treatment plant and a mining camp, which are located in the districts of San Francisco de Asis de Yurusyacan and Yanacancha, province of Pasco.

Huancabamba River

The river basin is between the mountain range of Yanachaga to the East and the line departmental limit Huánuco - Pasco.

Pozuzo River

This basin departmental limit Huánuco is understood between the Yanachaka mountain range to the east and the line - Pasco, for the north-east the line provincial limit Oxapampa - Cerro de Pasco for the south-west.


AberFest

After several years of visiting Lowender Peran and strengthening links, Pasco and Lorho, organised the first “Breizh – Kernow Festival” in 1987 (Breizh being Breton for Brittany and Kernow being Cornish for Cornwall) in Brandivy, in the Morbihan region of Brittany.

Cerro de Pasco

Gray Brechin notes that the mines of Cerro de Pasco were a chief source of wealth for William Randolph Hearst and his family.

Dinoponera longipes

Dinoponera longipes have been collected in eastern Peru in the departments of Loreto, Amazonas, Huánuco, San Martín and Pasco, as well as Ecuador in the province of Pastaza.

Ferrocarril Central Andino

Formerly a branch split off at Cerro de Pasco and ran into Pachitea Province in Huánuco region.

KZFN

Until early 2008, KZFN was also carried on K237DP-FM 95.3 FM, a 34 watt broadcast translator in the "Tri-cities" of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick and had picked up a significant audience in that area.

Pasco Invitational

Most notable stars from the Pasco Invitational included Brad Walker, Ja'Warren Hooker, Anthony Buchanan, Chris Lukezic, and Ernie Conwell.

Saint Leo Abbey

Saint Leo Abbey, located in Pasco County, Florida, traces its beginnings to 1882 when Judge Edmund F. Dunne founded the Catholic Colony of San Antonio.

Teamsters for a Democratic Union

In June 1999, 1,200 Teamsters walked off the job at the IBP (now Tyson) meatpacking plant in Pasco, Washington after management fired shop floor leaders who protested unsafe conditions.

Wickstrom

George Wickstrom and Bernie Wickstrom, father and son owners of The Zephyrhills News, a weekly broadsheet newspaper in Pasco County, Florida, U.S.A.

Yanesha people

Presently, the most recent census count puts their population at over 7,000 distributed among 48 communities located in Puerto Inca Province (Huánuco), Chanchamayo Province (Junín) and Oxapampa Province (Pasco).

Yaru Quechua

Yaru Quechua is a dialect cluster of Quechua, spoken in the Peruvian province of Pasco and neighboring areas in northern Junín and Lima department.


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