Hatun Wayq'u
Hatun Wayq'u ( Quechua ''hatun'' big, ''wayq'u'' brook or valley, "big brook (or valley)", hispanicized spellings ''Hatunhuaico, Jatunhuayco'') which downstream successively is named T'uruyunka ''(Toroyunca)'' and Chuqisayra ''(Choquesayra)'' is a river in Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Vilcabamba District. It belongs to the watershed of the Apurímac River, the source of the Amazon River. Hatun Wayq'u originates from various streams north and northeast of the peak of Suyruqucha at heights of approximately . Its direction is mainly to the northwest. It receives waters from a stream named Ñañu Wayq'u ("thin brook"), a left tributary which originates north of a mountain named Ñañu Wayq'u, and from another stream which is also named Hatun Wayq'u or Qullaqucha brook ''(Collacocha)'', later called T'utura ''(Totora)'', as a left affluent. This westernmore stream, Hatun Wayq'u or Qullaqucha, originates northeast of P'anta near . One of its lef ...
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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 ...
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