Yantayuq

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Yantayuq
Shallanqa
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Yantayuq
Peru
Highest point
Elevation 5,300 m (17,400 ft)  [1]
Coordinates 11°50′04″S76°03′25″W / 11.83444°S 76.05694°W / -11.83444; -76.05694 Coordinates: 11°50′04″S76°03′25″W / 11.83444°S 76.05694°W / -11.83444; -76.05694  
Geography
Location Peru, Junín Region
Parent range Andes, Paryaqaqa

Yantayuq (Quechua llam'a, llant'a, yanta firewood, -yuq a suffix, [2] "the one with firewood", also spelled Yantayo), also known as Shallanqa (hispanicized spelling Shallanca), [3] is a mountain in the Paryaqaqa mountain range in the Andes of Peru which reaches an altitude of approximately 5,300 metres (17,388 ft). It is located in the Junín Region, Yauli Province, in the districts of Suitucancha and Yauli. Yantayuq lies southwest of Putka and north of Qarwachuku. [1]

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.

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.

Yantayuq is also the name of a small lake northwest of the mountain in the Yauli District at 11°49′27″S76°03′52″W / 11.82417°S 76.06444°W / -11.82417; -76.06444

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References

  1. 1 2 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Yauli Province (Junín Region)
  2. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ Evelio Echevarría, The Cordillera Huarochiri, Peru, The Alpine Journal 2001
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