HUANCAVELICA, or Guancabelica, ths chief town of a department of same name, Peru, is situated in a deep ravine, of an average width of one mile, at about 12,400 feet above sealevel, and 160 miles south-east of Lima. It is well and regularly built, the houses being of stone, while several stone bridges span the stream that flows through the town. Huancavelιca was founded in 1572 as a mining town by the viceroy Francisco de Toledo, and mining has continued to be the principal employment of the inhabitants. Close by is the famous quicksilver mine of Santa Barbara, with its subterranean San Rosario church, cut out of the cinnabar. Population in 1876, 3937.