The location of our coursework was on the city of Huaraz, Ancash, Peru.  

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  City of Huaraz, our place of research

Section of Map of Huaraz

Background Information

The city occupies large part of the valley bottom & lower slopes at 3000m in the Rio Santa Valley.  It is a nodal point between two valleys.  It has many mines in the area, including 2 large open cast gold Mines operated by a Canadian Company, since the Andes is mineral rich.  Agriculture dominates the landscape, and in 1970, an earthquake destroyed much of Huaraz, so the majority of the buildings belong to that time.  The Cordillera Blanca is the most accessible high altitude mountain range in Peru, including the Huascaran (6768m, it’s the highest point in Peru), which attracted many tourists into climbing + trekking & other associated businesses.  Huaraz has many functions:

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  • Administration of the Department of Ancash.
  • Agriculture.
  • Mining.
  • Tourism.

Aim

While investigating about the Human Geography of Huaraz, I only had one thing in mind, and it was the aim, which was: To delimit the CBD of Huaraz”.  We were to mark the limits or boundaries of the CBD of Huaraz.  We expected the CBD to have a concentration of commercial buildings, lots of people and vehicles, with little amount of green area, lots of littler and pollution.

Hypothesis + Theory behind them

Before we started studying the city + taking notes of what we saw, ...

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