Huancavelica (Huancaveli`ca) , a dep. of Peru, lies within the region of the Cordilleras, has rich silver and quicksilver mines; the capital (4), bearing the same name, is a mining town 150 m. SE. of Lima.
Population (circa 1900) given as 104,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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