Pura Purani

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Pura Purani
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Pura Purani
Location in Bolivia
Highest point
Elevation 5,318 m (17,448 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 16°06′07″S68°21′06″W / 16.10194°S 68.35167°W / -16.10194; -68.35167 Coordinates: 16°06′07″S68°21′06″W / 16.10194°S 68.35167°W / -16.10194; -68.35167  
Geography
Location Bolivia,
La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Batallas Municipality
Parent range Andes, Cordillera Real

Pura Purani (Aymara pura pura Xenophyllum (or a species of it), [2] -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with the pura pura plant") is an about 5,318-metre-high (17,448 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Batallas Municipality. [3] It is between Phaq'u Kiwuta in the northeast and Mich'ini in the southwest.

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.

<i>Xenophyllum</i> genus of plants

Xenophyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. The genus was erected in 1997 for several species formerly treated in genus Werneria. These plants grow in the high mountains of the Andes.

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

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References

  1. ↑ Bolivian IGM map 1.50,000 Lago Khara Kkota
  2. ↑ Jorge Araya-Presa, Francisco A. Squeo, Lina Barrientos, Eliana Belmonte, Manuel Mamani, Gina Arancio, Manual de Plantas y Canciones en Aymara, PROYECTO EXPLORA-CONICYT ED7/02/085: Etnobotánica y Etnomusicología Aymara: Divulgación de la sabiduría ancestral sobre plantas nativas del Altiplano de Arica, Chile, 2003
  3. ↑ "Batallas". INE, Bolivia. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2016. (unnamed)
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