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Alvarado. Huanuco is celebrated for its fruits and sweetmeats, the " chirimoya " (Anona chirimolia) of this region being the largest and most delicious of its See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind. See also:

MINING

Mining is one of the city's See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries. Huanuco was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of one of the bloodthirsty massacres of which the Chileans were guilty during their occupation of Peruvian territory in 1881–1883. The department of lluanuco lies immediately N. of See also:

JUNIN

Junin, with See also:

ANCACHS

Ancachs on the W. and See also:

San See also:

Martin and See also:

LORETO

Loreto on the N. and E. Pop. (1906 estimate) 108,980; See also:

AREA

area, 14,028 sq. in. It lies wholly in the See also:

CORDILLERA

Cordillera region, and is traversed from S. to N. by the Maranon and Huallaga See also:

rivers.

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