Qushchu

Quşçu (also transliterated Qushchu, or Gushchu) is a village and municipality in the Daşkəsən District of western Azerbaijan, in the Lesser Caucasus mountains, with a population of roughly 2,000. The name is connected to the Azerbaijani word for "bird"/"falconer." Like its neighbour Bayan, Quşçu had an Armenian population — recorded historically under the Armenian name Khachakap (Խաչակապ) — before the exodus of Armenians from Azerbaijan that followed the outbreak of the First Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the early 1990s. It is now a quiet, ethnically Azerbaijani highland village typical of this mining-district region.

By Plane

Ganja International Airport (KVD IATA) is the nearest airport.

By Car / Road

Reachable by road from Dashkasan and Ganja via local roads.

Walkable village.

• Mountain landscapes and rural Azerbaijani village life.

• Hiking and nature walks.

• Dashkasan — district centre.
• Ganja (60 km north) — major city with full services.