Kusin Ch'utu

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Kusin Ch'utu
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Kusin Ch'utu
Location in Bolivia
Highest point
Elevation 5,020 m (16,470 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 18°06′50″S68°19′07″W / 18.11389°S 68.31861°W / -18.11389; -68.31861 Coordinates: 18°06′50″S68°19′07″W / 18.11389°S 68.31861°W / -18.11389; -68.31861  
Geography
Location Bolivia, Oruro Department, Sajama Province
Parent range Andes

Kusin Ch'utu (Aymara kusi happiness, fortune, good luck, [2] -n(i) a suffix to indicate ownership, ch'utu peak of a mountain, top of the head, [2] Hispanicized spelling Cusin Chuto) is a 5,020-metre-high (16,470 ft) mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, in the north of the Turco Municipality. Kusin Ch'utu is situated north-east of the mountains Qhapaqa, Yaritani and Kimsa Chata. The river Q'ulini ("the one with stripes", Culini) originates at the mountain. It flows to the south-east. [1] [3]

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.

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case ending, which indicate the grammatical cased of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

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.


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References

  1. 1 2 BIGM map 1:50,000 Estancia Marcarani Hoja 5939-IV
  2. 1 2 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)
  3. ↑ "Turco". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
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