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Pawka (Quechua for a plant ''(Escallonia herrerae)'', Hispanicized spellings ''Pauca, Paucca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canas Province, Layo District, and in the Canchis Province Canchis Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The Willkanuta River or Willkamayu is one of the largest rivers of the province. Siwinaqucha, the biggest lake of the province, is a ..., Marangani District. Pawka lies east of Langui Layo Lake.Peru 1:250,000, Sicuani SD 19-09, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD References Mountains of Cusco Region Mountains of Peru {{Cusco-geo-stub ...
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Canas Province
Canas Province is one of thirteen Provinces of Peru, provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The La Raya mountain range, La Raya mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Canas Province and the Melgar Province (Puno Region) Political division The province is divided into eight Districts of Peru, districts ( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: * Checca District, Checca (Checca, Peru, Checca) * Kunturkanki District, Kunturkanki (El Descanso) * Langui District, Langui (Langui) * Layo District, Layo (Layo, Peru, Layo) * Pampamarca District, Canas, Pampamarca (Pampamarca) * Quehue District, Quehue (Quehue) * Túpac Amaru District, Túpac Amaru (Tungasuca) * Yanaoca District, Yanaoca (Yanaoca) Ethnic groups The people in the province are ...
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Layo District
Layo District is one of eight districts in the Canas Province in Peru. The seat of the Layo District is the village Layo. Geography The La Raya mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Melgar Province (Puno Region) Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (90.47%) learnt to speak in childhood, 9.39% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... language ( 2007 Peru Census).
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Canchis Province
Canchis Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The Willkanuta River or Willkamayu is one of the largest rivers of the province. Siwinaqucha, the biggest lake of the province, is also one of the biggest lakes of Peru. The Willkanuta and La Raya mountain ranges traverse the province. One of the highest peaks of the province is Ausangate. Other mountains are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Canchis and La Convención Province (Cusco Region) History After independence, the province was created as ''Tinta Province''. On October 14, 1833, it was divided into two new provinces: Canchis Province and Canas Province. On August 29, 1834, the city of Sicuani became the official capital of Canchis Province. Political division The province is divided into eight districts ( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in pare ...
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Marangani District
Marangani District is one of eight districts of the province Canchis in Peru. Geography The La Raya mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest mountains are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Melgar Province (Puno Region) The most important river of the district is the Willkanuta which crosses the district from southeast to northwest. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (80.81%) learnt to speak in childhood, 18.82% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... language ( 2007 Peru Census).
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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 ...
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Peru
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Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno on the east; Arequipa on the south; and Apurímac, Ayacucho and Junín on the west. Its capital is Cusco, the historical capital of the Inca Empire. Geography The plain of Anta contains some of the best communal cultivated lands of the Department of Cusco. It is located about above sea level and is used to cultivate mainly high altitude crops such as potatoes, tarwi (edible lupin), barley and quinoa. Provinces * Acomayo (Acomayo) * Anta (Anta) * Calca ( Calca) * Canas (Yanaoca) * Canchis (Sicuani) * Chumbivilcas (Santo Tomás) * Cusco (Cusco) * Espinar (Yauri) * La Convención (Quillabamba) * Paruro ( Paruro) * Paucartambo (Paucartambo) * Quispicanchi (Urcos) * Urubamba ( Urubamba) Languages According to the 2 ...
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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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Langui Layo Lake
Lake Langui Layo is a lake in Peru. See also *List of lakes of Peru The following is a list of lakes in Peru.Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)"Compendio Estadistica 2007" page 26 Many of the names have the ending -cocha, from Quechua ''qucha'': lake. * Acucocha * Alcacocha * Arapa * Ar ... References *INEI, Compendio Estadistica 2007, page 26 Lakes of Peru Lakes of Cusco Region {{Cusco-geo-stub ...
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Mountains Of Cusco Region
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain ...
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