Yungay

Yungay is less than a hour of the city of Huaraz. This little town was covered by tons of ice and mud, both mixed together, due to the earthquake of 1970. A block of ice of the mountain range "Huascaran" separeted from the mountain falling to the town of Yungay covering this town.

Yungay now is known has "Campo Santo de Yungay" due to that many people died in 1970 due to the earquake. The ice block that broke off the "Huascaran", that was at 6663 meters from sea level, arrived to Yungay 3000, to in four meters with a speed of 220 kilometers per hour. This ice block mixed with mud in his way down and covered all Yungay except the cemetery.

Only the people at the cemetery and the kids who went to the circus that day were saved. This catastrophe lefft more than 68.000 children orphans.