Suerococha (Ancash)

Suerococha
Suerococha
	Huayhuash mountain range from space, looking to the northeast. Yerupaja and Siula are in the centre. Suerococha lies almost at the end of the sub-range in the foreground.
Highest point
Elevation	5,100 m (16,700 ft) [1]
Listing	List of mountains in Peru
Coordinates	10°17′11″S76°58′33″W / 10.28639°S 76.97583°W Coordinates: 10°17′11″S76°58′33″W / 10.28639°S 76.97583°W
Geography
	Suerococha Peru
Location	Peru, Ancash Region
Parent range	Andes, Huayhuash

Last updated February 25, 2019

Suerococha (possibly from Quechua suyru a very long dress tracked after when worn, qucha lake,^[2]) is a mountain in the west of the Huayhuash mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,100 metres (16,732 ft) high, and the name of a small lake near the mountain. The mountain is located in the Ancash Region, Bolognesi Province, Pacllon District.^[3] Suyruqucha lies on a sub-range west of Yerupaja, northwest of Huacrish and Auxilio and northeast of Rajucollota.

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, 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.

The Bolognesi Province is one of 20 provinces of the Ancash Region of Peru.

The mountain might have been named after a little lake southwest of it. It lies in the Copa District of the Lima Region at 10°18′20″S76°59′15″W / 10.30556°S 76.98750°W / -10.30556; -76.98750 .

Copa District is one of five districts of the province Cajatambo in Peru.

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References

↑ "Nevado Suerococha". IGN, Peru. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe UGEL map of the Bolognesi Province (Ancash Region)]

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[ign-1] "Nevado Suerococha". IGN, Peru. Retrieved March 10, 2015.

[2] Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)

[3] scale.minedu.gob.pe UGEL map of the Bolognesi Province (Ancash Region)]