Ch'iyar Juqhu River

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Ch'iyar Juqhu
Chiar Jokho / Chiar Joko
River
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Lake Titicaca as seen from the summit of Janq'u Uma. The mouth of the Ch'iyar Juqhu River is visible in the left edge of this image.
Name origin: Aymara
Country Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia
Region La Paz Department
Coordinates 16°2′S68°39′W / 16.033°S 68.650°W / -16.033; -68.650 Coordinates: 16°2′S68°39′W / 16.033°S 68.650°W / -16.033; -68.650
Source Cordillera Real
 - location Los Andes Province
Mouth
 - location Omasuyos Province, La Paz Department

The Ch'iyar Juqhu River (Aymara Ch'iyar Juqhu Jawira, ch'iyara black, juqhu muddy place, jawira river, [1] "black muddy river", Hispanicized spellings Chiar Jokho, Chiar Joko) is a Bolivian river east of Lake Titicaca in the La Paz Department. It originates in the Cordillera Real near the peaks of the 6,127 m high Ch'iyar Juqhu which is probably named after the river or the region around it and the 5,871 m high Qalsata and flows down towards the Altiplano.

Aymara language native language in South America

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.

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Lake Titicaca lake in Peru and Bolivia

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At first the river flows in a southwestern direction. Near the village of Qurpa Putu (Corpa Puto) in the Achacachi Municipality it turns to the northwest unifying with more rivers to end in Lake Titicaca near the mouth of the Jach'a Jawira. [2]

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References

  1. 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)
  2. Achacachi Municipality: population data and map Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine.

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