Upper Huallaga Valley

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The Upper Huallaga Valley is a remote, coca-growing region of central Peru that became notorious as a stronghold of insurgent and narcotics-related activity.

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Label Occurrences
Upper Huallaga Valley canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographic region
valley
associatedWith Peruvian civil conflict (1980s–1990s)
surface form: Peruvian internal conflict

Sendero Luminoso
Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path
surface form: Shining Path

drug trafficking organizations
borderedBy Andes
surface form: Andes Mountains
characterizedAs remote region
climate tropical
conflictType insurgency
narcotics-related conflict
country Peru
economicActivity coca growing
subsistence agriculture
hasIllicitCrop coca
hasIssue deforestation
rural poverty
weak state presence
hasLegalCrop cacao
coffee
historicalRole key area in Andean cocaine trade
major coca-producing zone in Peru
involvedIn Peruvian government counterinsurgency operations
U.S.-backed anti-drug operations
coca eradication campaigns
knownFor coca cultivation
cocaine trafficking
illicit drug production
insurgent activity
narcotics-related violence
languageUsed Quechua
Spanish
locatedIn Huallaga River basin
central Peru
mainRiver Huallaga River NERFINISHED
namedAfter Huallaga River NERFINISHED
partOf Huánuco Region
Peruvian Amazon
San Martín Region
securityConcernFor Government of Peru
surface form: Peruvian government

United States of America
surface form: United States
subjectOf counternarcotics policies
rural development programs
terrain mountainous
river valley
timePeriodOfNotoriety 1980s
1990s

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Kotosh tradition region Upper Huallaga Valley