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HuANUco — Cerro de Pasco. 



Huannco, the health resort of Cerro de Pasco, near the source of the Huallaga 

 ('6,140 feet), is a mining town which has been enriched more by its coffee and 



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sugar plantations than by its goldfields. In Tnca times it was the chief strategic 

 centre between Cuzco and Quito. On the Mayo affluent of the Huallaga stand the 



