K'uchu Hanka

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K'uchu Hanka
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K'uchu Hanka
Peru
Highest point
Elevation 4,925 m (16,158 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 10°25′38″S76°01′45″W / 10.42722°S 76.02917°W / -10.42722; -76.02917 Coordinates: 10°25′38″S76°01′45″W / 10.42722°S 76.02917°W / -10.42722; -76.02917  
Geography
Location Peru, Huánuco Region
Parent range Andes

K'uchu Hanka (Quechua k'uchu corner, local Quechua hanka snowcapped ridge or peak; ice, [2] [3] [4] "corner peaks", Hispanicized spelling Jochojanca) is a 4,925-metre-high (16,158 ft) mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Huánuco Region, Ambo Province, San Rafael District, and in the Pachitea Province, Panao District. K'uchu Hanka lies north of Wamanripayuq, northwest of the Waqurunchu mountain range. [5]

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. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ Rimaycuna, Quechua de Huánuco, Diccionario del quechua del Huallaga con índices castellano e inglés, Serie Lingüistica Peruana No. 48, p. 271
  4. ↑ Características distíntivas del quechua de Corongo, Serie Lingüística Peruana No. 50, Peru, 2000, p. 32
  5. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Pachitea Province (Huánuco Region)
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