| Kachi Mayu | |
| River | |
| Name origin: Quechua | |
| Country | Bolivia |
|---|---|
| Region | Oruro Department |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Pupusa Pallqa, Waylla Wint'u, Phaq'u Q'awa |
| - right | Castilla Chita, Qullpa Jawira |
| Source | Andes |
| - location | Condo "C" Canton, Oruro Department |
| - elevation | 4,600 m (15,092 ft) |
| - coordinates | 19°20′S66°20′W / 19.333°S 66.333°W |
| Mouth | Pillku Mayu |
| - location | Potosí Department, Urmiri Municipality |
Kachi Mayu (Quechua kachi salt, mayu river, [1] "salt river", hispanicized spelling Cachi Mayu) is a Bolivian river east of Poopó Lake in the Oruro Department, Challapata Province, Challapata Municipality. Its source, the Jach'a Juqhu River, is considered the origin of the Pillku Mayu. [2]
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.
Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km2 (20,690 sq mi). Its capital is the city of Oruro. According to the 2012 census, the Oruro department had a population of 494,178.
Pilcomayo is a river in central South America. At 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) long, it is the longest western tributary of the Paraguay River. Its drainage basin is 270,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) in area, and its mean discharge is 200 cubic metres per second (7,100 cu ft/s).
The Jach'a Juqhu River (Aymara jach'a big, great, juqhu muddy place, [1] "great muddy place", hispanicized Jachcha Jokho) originates in the Sebastián Pagador Province (which is identical to the Santiago de Huari Municipality), Condo "C" Canton [3] [4] at a height of 4,600 m south west of the mountain Wila Qullu. It flows in a northeastern direction. Southwest of the village of T'ula Pallqa the Jach'a Juqhu River meets Pupusa Pallqa River. Now the river successively receives the names T'ula Pallqa, Aguas Calientes and Kachi Mayu. From the point of the confluence with the Ch'illawa River, already in the Potosí Department, Urmiri Municipality, the river gets the name Pillku Mayu.
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.
Sebastián Pagador is a province in the southeastern parts of the Bolivian department of Oruro. Its seat is Santiago de Huari.
Wila Qullu is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia, about 5,144 metres (16,877 ft) high. It is located in the Oruro Department, Challapata Province, Challapata Municipality. Wila Qullu is situated south of Jach'a River and north of Nacional Route 1. It lies north-west of the mountain Wila Quta which reaches the same height.
There is another river of the same name, Kachi Mayu in the Oropeza Province of the Chuquisaca Department, which is a left tributary of the Pillku Mayu.
Kachi Mayu is a Bolivian river in the Chuquisaca Department, Oropeza Province, in the Sucre and Yotalla Municipalities. It is a left tributary of the Pillku Mayu, not to be confused with the Kachi Mayu in the Oruro Department which is the headwater of the Pillku Mayu. The confluence is on the border of the Yotalla Municipality and the Potosí Department, west of the village of Tasapampa.
Oropeza is a province in the Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Sucre which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the Chuquisaca Department.
Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.
