Lake Yanahuani

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Lago Yanahuin (also Yanahuni or Yanahuani ) is a lake in the central Peruvian Andes Department in Pasco at an altitude of about 4900 m above sea level. M..

The lake made ​​world headlines in 1971, when on March 18 caused by a rockslide huge tsunami Located on the shores of the mine settlement Chungar made ​​equal to the ground and ( according to different estimates) killed 400-600 people. The rock fall had broken 400 m above the lake level from pending limestone and covered an estimated 100,000 cubic meters of rock. He started a up to 30 m high tsunami that buried the opposite shore among them, and nearly destroyed the entire mining town. Part of the water spilled out into one of the mining shafts, where some of the miners were killed by drowning.

• Lake in South America
• See in Peru
• Pasco ( Region)