Chuschi is a town in the Chuschi District of the Cangallo Province of the Ayacucho Region of Peru. On May 17, 1980, Shining Path guerrillas began their war against the Peruvian state by burning ballot boxes in Chuschi. On March 14, 1991, government forces perpetrated the Chuschi massacre in the town.
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The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland and Iceland.
Ayacucho, known as Huamanga from its creation in 1822 until 1825, is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980s during the guerrilla war waged by Shining Path known as the internal conflict in Peru.
The Priestley Glacier is a major valley glacier, about 60 nautical miles long, originating at the edge of the Polar Plateau of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The glacier drains southeast between the Deep Freeze Range and Eisenhower Range to enter the northern end of the Nansen Ice Sheet. It was first explored by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named for Raymond Priestley, a geologist with the Northern Party.
Bear Peninsula is a peninsula about 50 nautical miles long and 25 nautical miles wide which is ice-covered except for several isolated rock bluffs and outcrops along its margins, lying 3 nautical miles east of Martin Peninsula on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
Huanca Sancos is a province in central Ayacucho, Peru. On April 3, 1983, Shining Path terrorists entered the town of Lucanamarca and killed 69 people.
Lampa province is a province of the Puno Region in Peru. Its population is about 40,856. The capital is Lampa.
The Cangallo Province is a province located in the Ayacucho Region of Peru. It is one of the eleven that make up the region. The province has a population of 36,977 inhabitants as of census 2005. The capital of the province is the city of Cangallo.
Corongo is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Corongo in the region Ancash.
Chuschi District is one of six districts of the Cangallo Province in Peru. It is known for being the site of the first attack perpetrated by the maoist terrorist organization Shining Path, initiating the Peruvian conflict.
Ollantaytambo District is one of seven districts of Urubamba Province in Peru. The town of Ollantaytambo is the capital of the district.
Atiquipa District is one of thirteen districts of Caravelí Province in the Arequipa Region of Peru.
Yauli District is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica in Peru.
Murray Island is an island 6 nautical miles long lying at the south-west side of Hughes Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Palestrina Glacier is a glacier lying in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica, 11 nautical miles (20 km) long and 8 nautical miles (15 km) wide, flowing west from Nichols Snowfield into Lazarev Bay. The glacier was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, by Derek J.H. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Giovanni da Palestrina (1525–1594), Italian composer.
The Smith Peninsula is an ice-covered, "dog-legged" peninsula 25 nautical miles long and 10 nautical miles wide, extending in an easterly direction between Keller Inlet and Nantucket Inlet from the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
Tofani Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast into the head of Solberg Inlet, Bowman Coast, to the north of Houser Peak. The feature was photographed from the air by United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940, U.S. Navy, 1966, and was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1946–48. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1977 after Dr. Walter Tofani, M.D., station physician at Palmer Station, 1975.
Qunchupata is an archaeological zone in Peru. It is located in the Ayacucho Region, Huamanga Province, Ayacucho District. The site was declared a National Cultural Heritage (Patrimonio Cultural) of Peru by Resolución Directional Nacional No. 458-98-INC on December 15, 1998.
The Chuschi ballot burning incident occurred on the night of May 17, 1980, in the Peruvian district of Chuschi in Ayacucho. It was the first attack perpetrated by the maoist terrorist organization Shining Path.
