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Cerro Morokho
Muruq'u (Quechua for ball (of yarn, wool), Hispanicized spelling ''Morokho'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Potosí Department, Sud Lípez Province, in the north of the Esmoruco Municipality, southwest of Guadalupe. Muruq'u lies southeast of P'aqu Urqu and Waqrayuq. (unnamed) Muruq'u is a volcano of early Miocene age, constructed between the Lipez and Cerro Bonete volcanoes north of Cerro Panizos. Volcanic activity commenced with explosive eruptions generating fall deposits and was followed by the extrusion of lava domes and lava flow Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface. Lava may be erupted at a volcano or through a fracture in the crust, on land or und ...s. References Mountains of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
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Potosí Department
Potosí (; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi''; qu, P'utuqsi) is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants (2012 census). The capital is the city of Potosí. It is mostly a barren, mountainous region with one large plateau to the west, where the largest Salt pan (geology), salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located. Cerro Rico, Cerro Potosí was the richest province in the Spanish empire, providing a great percentage of the silver that was Spanish treasure fleet, shipped to Europe. Potosi is also the location of the San Cristóbal mine (Bolivia), San Cristóbal silver, zinc and lead mines, developed by the US-company Apex Silver Mines Limited of Colorado and in November 2008 sold to the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation. Government The chief executive office of Departments of Bolivia, Bolivia departments (since May 2010) is the governor; until then, the office was called the prefect, and until 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sud Lípez Province
Sud or SUD may refer to: Places * Sud (Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg constituency), a constituency in Luxembourg * Sud (department), an administrative subdivision of Haiti * Sud Department (Ivory Coast), defunct administrative subdivision of Ivory Coast * South Province, New Caledonia (French: ''Province Sud'') * Sud, Cidra, Puerto Rico, a ''barrio'' People * Anjali Sud (born 1983), Indian American businesswoman and the CEO of Vimeo * Veena Sud, Canadian-born American television writer, director, and producer Organizations and companies * Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques, a French group of trade unions Transportation *Sud Aviation, a defunct French state-owned aircraft manufacturer * Sudbury & Harrow Road railway station, London, England (National Rail station code) Arts, entertainment, and media * Sud (band), a Filipino band * ''Sud'' (1993 film), a film by Gabriele Salvatores * ''Sud'' (1999 film), a Belgian-Finnish-French English-language documentary art film about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S latitude), and has an average height of about . The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Along their length, the Andes are split into several ranges, separated by intermediate depressions. The Andes are the location of several high plateaus—some of which host major cities such as Quito, Bogotá, Cali, Arequipa, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Sucre, Mérida, El Alto and La Paz. The Altiplano plateau is the world's second-highest after the Tibetan plateau. These ranges are in turn grouped into three major divisions based on climate: the Tropical Andes, the Dry Andes, and the Wet Andes. The Andes Mountains are the highest m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio De Esmoruco Municipality
San Antonio de Esmoruco is the third municipal section of the Sur Lípez Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia. Its seat is San Antonio de Esmoruco. Subdivision The municipality consists of the following cantons: * Guadalupe Canton - 497 inhabitants (2001) * San Antonio de Esmoruco Canton - 1,169 inhabitants The people The people are predominantly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo/municipal/fichas/ (inactive) See also * Guadalupe, Sud Lípez * Muruq'u Muruq'u (Quechua for ball (of yarn, wool), Hispanicized spelling ''Morokho'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Potosí Department, Sud Lípez Province, in the north of the Esmoruco Municipality, southwest of Guadalu ... * Nina Urqu * Waqrayuq References External links San Antonio de Esmoruco Municipality: population data and map Municipalities of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P'aqu Urqu (Bolivia)
P'aqu Urqu ( Quechua ''p'aqu'' meaning blond, fair, a color similar to gold, and ''urqu'' meaning mountain. "'blond' or slightly golden mountain", Hispanicized spelling ''Paco Orkho'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Potosí Department, Sud Lípez Province, San Pablo de Lípez Municipality, southwest of San Pablo de Lípez San Pablo de Lípez is a small town in the Potosí Department of Bolivia. It is the seat of the Sur Lípez Province and of the San Pablo de Lípez Municipality. See also * Kuntur Wasi (Bolivia), Kuntur Wasi * Q'illu Salli * Yana Urqu (Sud Líp .... P'aqu Urqu lies between the mountains Yuraq Urqu and Yana Urqu in the northwest and Waqrayuq in the southeast. A little river named Ñañu Mayu ("slim river", ''Nanu Mayu'') originates northeast of the mountain. It flows to the west. References Mountains of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waqrayuq
Waqrayuq ( Quechua ''waqra'' horn, ''-yuq'' a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a horn", Hispanicized spelling ''Huajrayoj'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Potosí Department, Sud Lípez Province, in the north of the Esmoruco Municipality. Waqrayuq lies south-east of the mountain P'aqu Urqu and north-west of the mountain Muruq'u Muruq'u (Quechua for ball (of yarn, wool), Hispanicized spelling ''Morokho'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Potosí Department, Sud Lípez Province, in the north of the Esmoruco Municipality, southwest of Guadalu .... (unnamed) References Mountains of Potosí Department {{Potosí-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, such as in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande rift in North America. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has been postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs from the core–mantle boundary, deep in the Earth. This results in hotspot volcanism, of which the Hawaiian hotspot is an example. Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro Bonete (Lipez)
Cerro Bonete is a volcano in Sur Lipez. It is part of the Cordillera de Lipez and is high. The volcano is of Miocene age and formed by potassium-rich felsic rocks. It is associated with the 15 mya South Lípez ignimbrites. Volcanism in the area occurred in two phases, an earlier andesitic phase called the Rondal formation and during the Quechua orogeny a second phase associated with rhyodacite forming lava domes, lava flows and pyroclastic flows (up to thick). The formation of the massif was preceded by the eruption of dacitic ignimbrite 15 mya Mya may refer to: Brands and product names * Mya (program), an intelligent personal assistant created by Motorola * Mya (TV channel), an Italian Television channel * Midwest Young Artists, a comprehensive youth music program Codes * Burmese .... These structures are mined, with mines including the Bolivar and Lipẽna mines. References See also * Cerro Morokho Volcanoes of Bolivia Extinct volcanoes Miocene lava dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro Panizos
Panizos is a Late Miocene caldera in the Potosí Department of Bolivia and the Jujuy Province of Argentina. It is part of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex of the Central Volcanic Zone in the Andes. 50 volcanoes active in recent times are found in the Central Volcanic Zone, and several major caldera complexes are situated in the area. The caldera is located in a difficult-to-access part of the Andes. Panizos and the majority of these volcanoes are formed by the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate under the continental South American continental lithosphere. The caldera is located east of the main arc and is supplied chiefly by dacite magmas. Beneath Panizos lie Tertiary ignimbrites and a Paleozoic sedimentary basement. The huge Panizos ignimbrite erupted by Cerro Panizos has a minimum volume of . It erupted during an event 6.71 ± 0.04 mya and was preceded by another ignimbrite 7.9 mya ago. The last activity is a lava flow 6.1 mya ago. The caldera is hidden beneath a shield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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