Ch'uch'u Apachita

Ch'uch'u Apachita
Ch'uch'u Apachita

Location within Bolivia

Highest point
Elevation 4,855 m (15,928 ft) [1]
Coordinates 15°43′35″S 68°36′05″W / 15.72639°S 68.60139°W / -15.72639; -68.60139Coordinates: 15°43′35″S 68°36′05″W / 15.72639°S 68.60139°W / -15.72639; -68.60139
Geography
Location Bolivia,
La Paz Department
Parent range Andes

Ch'uch'u Apachita (Aymara ch'uch'u cold, cold liquid, apachita the place of transit of an important pass in the principal routes of the Andes; name in the Andes for a stone cairn, a little pile of rocks built along the trail in the high mountains,[2][3][4] also spelled Chuchu Apacheta,[1] Chunchu Apacheta[5]) is a 4,855-metre-high (15,928 ft) mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Larecaja Province, Sorata Municipality. Ch'uch'u Apachita lies north of the main range of the Cordillera Real, south to southwest of the mountain Ch'uch'u, northwest of Chunta Qullu and east of Jukumarini. This is where the river Ch'uch'u Jawira originates.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Cordillera Real Nord (Illampu) - Bolivien - 1:50 000 Deutscher Alpenverein 1987
  2. ↑ "Diccionario de Sinónimos de lengua aymara". Félix Layme Pairumani. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.illa-a.org/cd/diccionarios/DicAymaraMinEduPeru.odt (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  4. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  5. 1 2 Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Sorata 5846-I
  6. ↑ "Sorata". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved November 30, 2014. (unnamed)


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