Ch'uñawi

Ch'uñawi
Ch'uñawi
	Ch'uñawi (the highest mountain on the right) as seen from the La Cumbre mountain pass in the south-west
Highest point
Elevation	4,846 m (15,899 ft) [1]
Coordinates	16°18′18″S67°59′16″W / 16.30500°S 67.98778°W Coordinates: 16°18′18″S67°59′16″W / 16.30500°S 67.98778°W
Geography
	Ch'uñawi Bolivia
Location	Bolivia,; La Paz Department, Murillo Province
Parent range	Andes, Cordillera Real

Last updated March 18, 2019

Ch'uñawi (Aymara for a place where potatoes are spread as part of the procedure to prepare ch'uñu ,^[2] also spelled Chunahui) is a 4,846-metre-high (15,899 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Andes of Bolivia It lies in the La Paz Department, Murillo Province, La Paz Municipality, northeast of the city of La Paz. Ch'uñawi is situated northwest of Mik'aya and Wak'ani and northeast of Jamp'aturi.^[1]^[3]

Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers. Aymara, along with Spanish, is one of the official languages of Bolivia and parts of Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language.

Chuño is a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Bolivia and Peru, and is known in various countries of South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. It is a five-day process, obtained by exposing a frost-resistant variety of potatoes to the very low night temperatures of the Andean Altiplano, freezing them, and subsequently exposing them to the intense sunlight of the day. The word comes from Quechua ch'uñu, meaning 'frozen potato'.

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References

1 2 Bolivian IGM map 1:100,000 Chulumani sheet 3338
↑ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
↑ "La Paz". INE, Bolivia. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2014.

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[igm-1] 1 2 Bolivian IGM map 1:100,000 Chulumani sheet 3338

[2] Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)

[3] "La Paz". INE, Bolivia. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2014.