Hatun Ukru (Pasco)

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Hatun Ukru
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Hatun Ukru
Peru
Highest point
Elevation 4,650 m (15,260 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 10°28′22″S76°03′56″W / 10.47278°S 76.06556°W / -10.47278; -76.06556 Coordinates: 10°28′22″S76°03′56″W / 10.47278°S 76.06556°W / -10.47278; -76.06556  
Geography
Location Peru, Pasco Region
Parent range Andes

Hatun Ukru (Quechua hatun big, ukru hole, pit, hollow, [2] [3] "big hollow", Hispanicized and broken name Jatunucero) is a 4,650-metre-high (15,260 ft) mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Pasco Region, Pasco Province, Ticlacayan District, northwest of the Waqurunchu mountain range. [4]

Andes mountain range running along the tu mamide of South America

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 republic in South America

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. ↑ Peru 1:100,000, Ambo 1650, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD
  2. ↑ Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ Ana Arias Torre, Toponimia de Ticapampa, in: Letras, Departamento Académico de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Letras, Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, p. 191
  4. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Pasco Province (Pasco Region)
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