Chunkara (Puno)

Chunkara
Chunkara
	Chunkara Peru
Highest point
Elevation	5,000 m (16,000 ft) [1]
Coordinates	15°33′58″S70°47′56″W / 15.56611°S 70.79889°W Coordinates: 15°33′58″S70°47′56″W / 15.56611°S 70.79889°W
Geography
Location	Peru, Puno Region, Lampa Province
Parent range	Andes

Last updated March 20, 2019

Chunkara (Aymara for "pointed mountain",^[2] Hispanicized spelling Chungara) is a mountain in the Sillapaka mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 m (16,404 ft) high . It is located in the Puno Region, Lampa Province, Paratia District, northeast of Sillapaka.^[1]

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.

The Andes or Andean Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. This range is about 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long, about 200 to 700 km wide, and of an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft). The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.

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References

1 2 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Caylloma Province 2 (Arequipa Region)
↑ "Diccionario Bilingüe Castellano-Aymara 2002". Félix Laime Pairumani. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

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[escale-1] 1 2 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Caylloma Province 2 (Arequipa Region)

[2] "Diccionario Bilingüe Castellano-Aymara 2002". Félix Laime Pairumani. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

Chunkara
Chunkara Peru
Highest point
Elevation	5,000 m (16,000 ft) ^[1]
Coordinates	15°33′58″S70°47′56″W / 15.56611°S 70.79889°W / -15.56611; -70.79889 Coordinates: 15°33′58″S70°47′56″W / 15.56611°S 70.79889°W / -15.56611; -70.79889
Geography
Location	Peru, Puno Region, Lampa Province
Parent range	Andes