It is located in Huancayo Province, of which it is also capital.
Situated in the Mantaro Valley at an altitude of 3,271 meters, it belongs to
the Quechua region. Depending on delimitation, the agglomeration has a
population between 340,000 and 380,000 and is the fifth most populous city of
the country. Huancayo is the cultural and commercial center of the whole
central Peruvian Andes area
