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In Peru, for example, Cuzco, Juliaca, Ayacucho and Abancay have higher growth rates than Lima [262].
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Threatened with creditors, Jews, _escribanos_ and the police, he retired to a silver-mine he was opening in the province of Abancay.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Defeated and captured by the latter at Abancay, after effecting his escape under great difficulties as well as dangers, and rejoining
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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I had no sooner seen it than all desire of getting to Abancay or anywhere else had left me.
The Romance of Golden Star ... George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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One of the most remarkable antiquities in Peru is at a place called _Concacha_, three leagues south of Abancay, on the road from Cuzco to Lima.
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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A curious method of capturing the condor alive is practised in the province of Abancay.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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Fifty leagues even from Abancay would have carried the army almost to Arequipa, to turn the head of the Apurimac, and among the highest mountains of Peru.
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Not knowing what was become of Giron, Alvarado issued orders to repair the bridges over the Apurimac and Abancay, intending to pass that way in quest of the rebels.
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Cuzco, and especially desirous of crossing the river Abancay [34] in some safe place.
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At length Giron marched into the province of Andahuaylas, which he laid waste without mercy, whence he went towards Cuzco on receiving intelligence that the army of the judges had passed the rivers Abancay and Apurimac on their way to attack him.
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