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navigation, search  Cañón del Pato (Spanish: Duck Canyon) is on
the Rio Santa (Santa River) at the north end of the Callejón de
Huaylas (Corridor of Huaylas) in north-central Peru. The mostly
rocky canyon walls are too steep and arid for cultivation, and
in only a few places are the slopes of the imposingly rugged
canyon suitable even for grazing domestic animals. The canyon
was formed by the river where the north end of the Cordillera
Negra range (to the west) converges with the Cordillera Blanca
mountain range (to the east). These two Andean ridges run
generally parallel for nearly 140 km from south of the city of
Huaraz northward to the Cañón; the Cordillera Blanca continues
northward for another hundred kilometers or more. The Callejón
de Huaylas is the valley between the two cordilleras averaging
about 16 km (measured on a map from the crests of the two
ridges) in width but in places as much as 25 km in width.  The
main south-north highway th