Huaylas Province

Map of Huaylas Province in Ancash.

The province of Huaylas or Huailas is one of the twenty that make up the department of Áncash in Peru. It limits to the north with the province of Corongo, to the east with the provinces of Sihuas and Pomabamba, to the south with the province of Yungay and to the west with the province of Santa.

Toponymy

• From the voice of the runasimi Q.I. wayllaq (the field that greens, or grasslands or slopes)
• Squietly: Way. = agricultural dance.

History

Huaylas is the oldest province in the department of Ancash, formerly called Huaylas.

Between 1542 and 1543 the lordship of Huaylas (ethnic group) had been fragmented into four repartimientos or parcels by Cristóbal Vaca de Castro. However, in 1565 the corregimiento of the Province of Huaylas was created which, according to an official report of 1618, included the following regions or districts: San Ildefonso de Recuay; San Sebastian de Huaraz; San Andrés de Pira; Santiago de Caxamarquilla; Saint Jerome of Pampas; Saint Francis of Huanchac; Saint Peter of Curis; Saint John the Baptist of Huachán; Santiago de Guayan; Santa Ana de Succha; Santiago de Aixa; San Pedro de Llacllén; The Moravian Magdalene; Santiago de Guambo; Santiago de Cochapeti; San Pablo de Cotaparaco; San Pedro de Tapacocha; Saint Gregory of Huayllapampa; Saint Veronica of Chaucayan; San Lorenzo de Mosca; La Magdalena de Guachas and San Cristóbal de Ichoca.

Huaylas appears in the Provisional Regulations issued by the Liberator José de San Martín, on February 12, 1821, integrating the department of Huaylas as a party. Later it appears in the Law of June 12, 1835 that delimits the Department of Huaylas made up of the old provinces of Santa, Huaylas, Conchucos and Cajatambo. This first province of Huaylas included, as districts, the current provinces of Huaylas, Yungay, Huaraz, Carhuaz, Recuay and Aija.

By Law of July 25, 1857, the first province of Huaylas was divided into the second province of Huaylas, with its capital Caraz, and the first province of Huaraz, with its capital the city of the same name. By Law of October 28, 1904, the second province of Huaylas was divided again, this time into the third and current province of Huaylas, with its capital Caraz, and in the province of Yungay, with its capital the city of the same name.

Capital

The capital of this province is the city of Caraz at 2278 m s. no. m. has a population of 13,330 inhabitants.

Administrative division

This province is divided into ten districts.

1. Caraz
2. Huallanca
3. Huata
4. Huaylas
5. Mato
6. Pamparomas
7. Free People
8. Santa Cruz
9. Santo Toribio
10. Yuracmarca

Authorities

Regionals

• Regional advisers
  • 2019 - 2022
  1. Eduardo Jhon Milla Flores (Always United)
  2. María Mercedes Gonzáles Sánchez (El Maicito Regional Movement)

Municipals

• 2019 - 2022
  • Mayor: Esteban Zosimo Florentino Tranca, from the El Maicito Regional Movement.
  • Regivers:
  1. Amanda Violeta Gonzáles Sánchez (El Maicito Regional Movement)
  2. Williams Edwin Araya Menacho (El Maicito Regional Movement)
  3. Hugo Manuel Arellán Méndez (El Maicito Regional Movement)
  4. Roosevelt Martín Velázquez Milla (El Maicito Regional Movement)
  5. Adan Samuel Pajuelo Bula (El Maicito Regional Movement)
  6. Mercedes Juana Viviano Olivera (El Maicito Regional Movement)
  7. Yudi Lisbeth Arias Infante (Always United)
  8. Luis Enrique Oliveros León (Alianza para el Progreso)
  9. Jorge Luis Vivar Angeles (Regional Independent Movement of Santa Caudaloso River)