Yanahuanca is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Daniel Alcídes Carrión in the region Pasco.

[1] The name of the town, is a phrase composed by the Quechua adjective yana (black), and the Runasimi noun wanka ("huanca" in Spanish) that means "demarcatory stone", among other meanings;[2] for what "yanahuanca" would be understood as "black stone".

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