Kotosh

archaeological site near the town of Huánuco, Peru
Place archaeological_site Q2669852
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Kotosh

Summary

Kotosh is an archaeological site[1]. Kotosh ranks in the top 8% of archaeological_site entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kotosh is located in Huánuco[3].
  • Kotosh is located in Huanuco Department[4].
  • Kotosh is located in Huánuco Province[5].
  • Kotosh is in the country of Peru[6].
  • Kotosh's image is recorded as Kotosh.jpg[7].
  • Kotosh's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[8].
  • Kotosh's location is recorded as Huánuco District[9].
  • Kotosh's Commons category is recorded as Kotosh[10].
  • Kotosh's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -9.93083333, 'lon': -76.27944444}[11].
  • Kotosh's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09g8l9k[12].
  • Kotosh's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300017266[13].
  • Kotosh's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Kotosh[14].
  • Kotosh's heritage designation is recorded as cultural heritage of Peru[15].
  • Kotosh's Wiki Loves Monuments ID is recorded as PE-HUC-020[16].
  • Kotosh's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as site-de-kotosh[17].
  • Kotosh's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Kotosh[18].
  • Kotosh's Grove Art Online ID is recorded as T047762[19].
  • Kotosh's OpenStreetMap node ID is recorded as 1728415724[20].
  • Kotosh's The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID is recorded as 2149[21].

Body

Geography

Kotosh is in the country of Peru[6]. Located in include Huánuco[3], a city[22], in Peru[23], founded in 1539[24]; Huanuco Department[4], a department of Peru[25], in Peru[26]; and Huánuco Province[5], a province of Peru[27], in Peru[28].

Designation and Status

Kotosh's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[8]. Kotosh's heritage designation is recorded as cultural heritage of Peru[15].

Why It Matters

Kotosh ranks in the top 8% of archaeological_site entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19 views/month).[2] Kotosh has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Kotosh is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Wiki Loves Monuments monuments database. tools.wmflabs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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