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Huanjiang Oil Field

The Huanjiang Oil Field (环江) is an operating onshore oil field in Huanxian County, Gansu Province, China, in the western Ordos Basin, developed by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Company.

Huanjing

Huanjing (环境减灾), formally the Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Forecasting Small Satellite Constellation, is a Chinese Earth-observation constellation approved in 2003, with satellites launched from 2008.

Huanmen Zidi Cuo Lishen

Huanmen Zidi Cuo Lishen (宦门子弟错立身) is a Song-Yuan Southern drama (nanxi) play in which Wanyan Shouma, son of a Jurchen official, abandons his status to join actress Wang Jinbang's troupe.

Huanquihue Group

Huanquihue Group (Cerro Huanquihué), a NNE-SSW chain of Pleistocene stratovolcanoes in Neuquén, Argentina, near the Chilean border south of Lanín; last eruption about 1750 CE at Achín-Niellu, whose lava flow reached Lago Epulafquen.

Huanren

Huanren (桓仁), formally Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, is a county of Benxi, Liaoning, China. Site of Wunüshan, first Goguryeo capital (37 BC) and 2004 UNESCO World Heritage site; population 275,093 (2024).

Huanting Wang

Huanting Wang is a chemical engineer and Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University, known for separation membranes for water treatment, desalination, and renewable energy.

Huánuco

Huánuco, department and city in central Peru on the Huallaga River; capital founded 1539 as León de Huánuco; 11 provinces, ~721,000 people, Kotosh and Huánuco Pampa sites, growing tourism destination.

Huánuco Pampa

Huánuco Pampa, also known as Huánuco Viejo, is a large Inca archaeological site in the highlands of Peru and one of the empire's principal provincial administrative and ceremonial centers.

Huanxian Wind Farm

Huanxian Wind Farm (环县风电) is a 50 MW wind power plant in Huanxian county, Gansu province, China, one of several wind farms there, wholly owned by CLP Group.

Huanzhong

Huanzhong (寰中), also known as Daci Huanzhong and posthumously titled Master Xingkong, was a Tang-dynasty Chan monk of the Hongzhou school who led the community on Daci Mountain in Hangzhou.

Huapalcalco

Huapalcalco: archaeological zone 4 km north of Tulancingo de Bravo, Hidalgo, Mexico; Nahuatl 'place of the wooden house'; five occupations from prehistory to Azteca III/IV, Epiclassic apogee (650–900 AD) based on El Pizarrín obsidian; declared a Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos in 2023; free entry.

Huapoca

Huapoca (Huápoca) is a cliff-dwelling archaeological zone of the Casas Grandes culture in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Madera municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico, occupied about 1000-1450 AD, with cave complexes Nido del Águila, Cueva de la Serpiente, Cueva del Mirador, and La Atalaya, built in molded earth with T-shaped doors.

Huaqiang Zeng

Huaqiang Zeng (曾华强) is a Chinese supramolecular chemist who designs artificial ion and water channels, after a research career in Singapore; he joined Fuzhou University in 2022.

Huaqin Technology

Huaqin Technology (华勤技术股份有限公司) is a Shanghai-based original design manufacturer founded in 2005 that designs and builds smartphones, laptops, and servers sold under brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, and Lenovo.

Huarache (food)

Huarache (Mexican food), also called guarache: an elongated oval masa antojito shaped like the huarache sandal, invented in 1935 Mexico City by Carmen Gómez near Canal de la Viga, filled with beans and topped with meat, salsa, and cheese.

Huarache (shoe)

Huarache (Mexican sandal, from Purépecha kwarachi): traditional woven-leather footwear on flat leather or tire soles, a 1940s export industry, Tarahumara running sandal, and subject of the 2025 Adidas Oaxaca Slip-On appropriation dispute.

Huarco

Huarco, also spelled Guarco, was a Late Intermediate Period chiefdom centered on Peru's lower Cañete valley, incorporated into the Inca Empire in the later 15th century.

Huarochirí

Huarochirí is a highland province in the Lima department of Peru, east of the capital, and home of the Huarochirí Manuscript, an early seventeenth-century Quechua record of Andean myths and rituals.

Huarochirí Manuscript

The Huarochirí Manuscript is an anonymous colonial-era Quechua text, written around 1608, recording the myths and rituals of the Huarochirí people of the Peruvian Andes.

Huarong Chemical

Huarong Chemical (华融化学) is a Chinese producer of potassium hydroxide and chlor-alkali chemicals in Pengzhou, Sichuan, founded in 2000 and listed on ChiNext since 2022.

Huarong Xiangjiang Bank (华融湘江银行股份有限公司) (华融湘江银行)

Huarong Xiangjiang Bank (华融湘江银行) was a state-owned joint-stock city commercial bank in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2010 by merging four city commercial banks and renamed Bank of Hunan (湖南银行) in 2022.

Huarpa culture

The Huarpa culture was a pre-Columbian archaeological culture of the Ayacucho basin in highland Peru, best known as the society from which the Wari state emerged.

Huáscar

Huáscar (Waskar) was the Sapa Inca of the Inca state from Cuzco. He ruled from 1525 until his death in 1532 during civil war.

Huascarán National Park

Huascarán National Park (Parque Nacional Huascarán), a 340,000-ha Peruvian park in the Cordillera Blanca, Áncash, created 1975; contains Peru's highest peak Nevado Huascarán (6,768 m), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1977) and World Heritage Site (1985).

Huashan Hospital

Huashan Hospital (华山医院), Fudan University, Shanghai; founded 1907 as the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital, first Chinese-run hospital in Shanghai; tertiary Grade A, 3,142 beds, national centers for neurological and infectious diseases.

Huasheng Haoche (花生好车)

Huasheng Haoche (花生好车) is a Chinese auto "new retail" platform founded in June 2015 by Chen Pengyun and Ma Xiaojun, offering rent-to-own car leases to young buyers in smaller cities.

Huashi Baidu granules

Huashi Baidu granules (化湿败毒颗粒) is a Chinese patent medicine developed in Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic and approved in China in March 2021 as one of the "three medicines and three formulations".

Huasipungo

Huasipungo is a 1934 novel by the Ecuadorian writer Jorge Icaza, a leading work of the Latin American indigenist movement that depicts the exploitation of Indigenous peasants by mestizo landowners.

Huastec

The Huastec are an Indigenous people of Mexico's Gulf Coast, whose language, Huastec or Téenek, belongs to the Mayan family, with about 167,000 speakers today.

Huastec rebellion

The Huastec rebellion was a series of armed resistances by the Huastec people of Mexico's Gulf coastal plain against Spanish rule, most intensely between 1519 and 1524.